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Summary Craig Barton’s YouTube video offers a teaching tip for managing mini-whiteboard activities. He discusses a method, credited to Matt Swain, of having students show their work in a staggered fashion—back row first, then middle, then front—to avoid overwhelming the teacher with too much information at once and to prevent students from copying answers. This…

Summary This YouTube video transcript from “Tips for Teachers” discusses effective classroom use of mini-whiteboards. Craig Barton, the presenter, highlights a detailed routine for using mini-whiteboards, emphasizing the importance of clear writing, proper board placement, and efficient pen handling to maximize student participation and minimize disruptions. He shares insights from a workshop led by Danny…

Summary This YouTube transcript from “Tips for Teachers” discusses formative assessment strategies in five lesson phases: Do Now/Starter, Prerequisite Knowledge Check, Explanation/Modeling, Practice, and Plenary/Exit Ticket. The speaker, Craig Barton, advocates for collecting responses from all students, not just a few, to gain a more accurate understanding of student comprehension. He emphasizes the importance of…

My SSDD Problems website is here: sddproblems.com More tips from Craig Barton Video transcript hello i’m craig barton and welcome to this tips for teachers video now some of you may be aware of my work with what i call ssd problems and that stands for same surface different deep so these are problems which…

You can buy Thinkers directly from the ATM here More tips from Craig Barton Video transcript hello my name is craig barton and welcome to this tips for teachers video now for much of my teaching career my focus has been on teacher teacher-generated examples some of you may be familiar with my work on…

You can download the Diagnostic Questions student template here More tips from Craig Barton Video transcript hello greg barton here and welcome to this tips for teachers video now in previous videos i’ve talked about my use of diagnostic questions both as my primary tool for my model of responsive teaching and also to offer…

More tips from Tom Sherrington Video transcript right tom tip number five please okay tip number five set occasional open response tasks and i stress occasional because this isn’t something you do a lot in fact it only really works really well if it’s a special status which is that it’s occasional so open response…

Summary This YouTube transcript discusses a teaching technique called “cross-class accountability,” where students are held responsible for understanding and responding to their classmates’ answers. The method encourages active listening and participation, particularly benefiting shy students. It’s suggested that teachers routinely ask students to summarize or comment on each other’s responses. The use of mini-whiteboards is…

Summary The YouTube video “Start with whoever got 8 out of 10 – Tips for Teachers” proposes a classroom technique for fostering a culture of error acceptance. The core idea is to begin reviewing a quiz by acknowledging students who achieved high scores (e.g., 8/10), encouraging them to identify their mistakes first. This approach normalizes errors, making…

Summary The YouTube video “Provide explicit scaffolds for verbal responses – Tips for Teachers” offers teaching strategies to improve students’ verbal responses, ultimately aiding their writing skills. The core idea is to provide students with simple sentence structures and transition words (e.g., “firstly,” “secondly,” “whereas”) as verbal scaffolds. This approach allows students to practice structuring…