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Tip 29. Ten ideas to improve Exit Tickets
A summary of all 10 ideas: Doug Lemov describes Exit Tickets in Teach like a Champion 3.0, available here Harry Fletcher-Wood has a great post on Exit Tickets here Teacher toolkit provides a good summary of Exit Tickets here Jemma Sherwood explains how Exit Tickets are a key part of her school’s marking and feedback…
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Tip 28. Six key times to check for understanding
Harry Fletcher-Wood has a whole series of blog posts on hinge-questions here Tom Sherrington has a blog post on the importance of checking for understanding here, and then one on five ways to check for understanding here General links
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Tip 27. Provide scaffolds for verbal responses
Tom also has a great post entitled five ways to scaffold classroom dialogue here General links
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Tip 26. Three ways to use diagnostic questions to check for understanding
You can access my Diagnostic Questions website here A useful spreadsheet to find questions on different topics easily is here A free course on what makes a good diagnostic question is here General links
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Tip 25. Try these three frameworks for learner generated examples
Give an example: Additional constraints: What if?: You can purchase Thinkers from the ATM directly here General links
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Tip 24. Ten types of questions to ask when checking for understanding
A summary of all 10 question types: The original paper where Pointon and Sangwin share their question taxonomy is here Doug Lemov talks about participation ratio and think ratio in Teach like a Champion 3.0, available here Adam Boxer discusses monosemic and polysemic questions on my Mr Barton Maths podcast here Tom Sherrington has a…
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Tip 23. Lengthen wait times after an answer
You can access Mary Budd-Rowe’s research (unfortunately behind a paywall) into Wait Times here Kent State University have a lovely article about wait times – including the all-important second wait time – here You can read Alexander Renkl’s research into self-explaining here General links
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Tip 22. Lengthen wait times after a question
You can access Mary Budd-Rowe’s research (unfortunately behind a paywall) into Wait Times here InnerDive have a nice blog post about wait time here Kent State University have a lovely article about wait times here Daniel Kahneman describes systems 1 and 2 in his book, Thinking fast and slow, available here General links
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Tip 21. Use the temptation to ask for self-report as a cue to ask a better question
Doug Lemov describes how to replace self-report in Teach like a Champion 3.0, available here Ollie Lovell summarises replace self-report here Tom Sherrington describes why it is important to check for understanding here You can read about the Dunning-Kruger effect here General links
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Tip 20. Think of questions as a check for misunderstanding
My favourite paper on the distinction between learning and performance is Learning Versus Performance: An Integrative Review, available here InnerDrive have a nice blog post about the distinction between performance and learning here General links