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Tips for Teachers: 400+ ideas to improve your teaching (Paperback)
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Teaching is complex. But there are simple ideas we can enact to
help our teaching be more effective. This book contains over 400
such ideas. The ideas come from two sources. First, from the
wonderful guests on my Tips for Teachers podcast - education
heavyweights such as Dylan Wiliam, Daisy Christodoulou and Tom
Sherrington, as well as talented teachers who are not household
names but have so much wisdom to share. Then there's what I have
learned from working with amazing teachers and students in hundreds
of schools around the world. Inside you will find 22 ideas to
enhance mini-whiteboard use, 15 ideas to improve the start of your
lesson, 14 ideas to help make Silent Teacher effective, seven ways
to respond if a student says they don't know, and lots, lots more.
Each idea can be implemented the very next time you step into a
classroom. So, whatever your level of experience, subject or phase,
there are plenty of ideas in this book to help take your teaching
to the next level. Book contents Chapter 1: How to use this book
Tip 1. How to use this book to improve your teaching Tip 2. How to
give yourself the best chance of making a lasting change Chapter 2:
Habits and routines Why are habits and routines important? Tip 3.
Eight ideas to help introduce a routine Tip 4. Beware of the Valley
of Latent Potential Tip 5. Two ideas to help a routine stick Tip 6.
Develop a set of high-value activity structures Tip 7. Six ideas to
help establish positive norms in your classroom Tip 8. Four types
of words to consider removing from your teaching vocabulary Chapter
3: The means of participation A challenge Tip 9. Front-load the
means of participation Tip 10. Ten ideas to improve Cold Call Tip
11. Eight reasons to strive for mass participation more frequently
Tip 12. Twenty-two ideas to improve the use of mini-whiteboards Tip
13. Five ideas to improve the use of voting systems Tip 14. Nine
ideas to improve Call and Response Tip 15. Fifteen ideas to improve
Partner Talk Tip 16. Six ideas to improve group work Tip 17. Use
the means of participation holy trinity Tip 18. Never rely on a
mental note Tip 19. The best tool for the long term might not be
the best tool for now Chapter 4: Checking for understanding Tip 20.
Think of questions as a check for misunderstanding Tip 21. Use the
temptation to ask for self-report as a cue to ask a better question
Tip 22. Lengthen wait times after asking a question Tip 23.
Lengthen wait times after an answer Tip 24. Ten types of questions
to ask when checking for understanding Tip 25. Try these three
frameworks for learner-generated examples Tip 26. Three ways to use
diagnostic questions to check for understanding Tip 27. Provide
scaffolds for verbal responses Tip 28. Six key times to check for
understanding Tip 29. Ten ideas to improve Exit Tickets Tip 30.
Pick the student least likely to know Tip 31. Start with whoever
got 8 out of 10 Tip 32. Ten ideas to help create a culture of error
Tip 33. Three ideas to encourage students to ask questions Chapter
5: Responsive teaching Tip 34. Trick your students to test if they
really understand Tip 35. Never round-up Tip 36. Six ideas if a
student says 'I don't know' Tip 37. What to do when some students
understand and some don't Tip 38. What to do when some students
still don't understand Tip 39. How students can own and record
classroom discussions Tip 40. Share students' work with the rest of
the class Chapter 6: Planning Tip 41. Seven ideas to improve a
scheme of work Tip 42. Six ideas to help start the planning process
Tip 43. Plan to do less, but better Tip 44. Ask yourself: 'What are
my students likely to be thinking about?' Tip 45. Write out ideal
student responses Tip 46. Four ideas to help you plan for and
respond to errors Tip 47. Two ideas to help teachers engage in Deep
Work Tip 48. Aim to close the loop when sending an email Chapter 7:
Prior knowledge Tip 49. Plan relevant prior knowledge Tip 50.
Prioritise relevant prior knowledge Tip 51. Assess relevant prior
knowledge Tip 52. Respond to prior knowledge assessment Tip 53.
Assess relevant prior knowledge for each idea, not for the whole
sequence Chapter 8: Explanations, modelling and worked examples Tip
54. Five ideas to show students why what we are learning today
matters Tip 55. Use related examples and non-examples to explain
technical language Tip 56. Fourteen ideas to improve the
explanation of a concept Tip 57. Teach decision making separately
Tip 58. Five ideas to improve our choice of examples Tip 59. Model
techniques live Tip 60. Use a teacher worked-examples book Tip 61.
Use student worked-examples books Tip 62. Make use of the power of
Example-Problem Pairs Tip 63. Fourteen ideas to improve Silent
Teacher Tip 64. Use self-explanation prompts to help develop your
students' understanding Tip 65. Six ideas to improve 'copy down the
worked example' Tip 66. Vary the means of participation for the We
Do Tip 67. Three errors to avoid with the Your Turn questions Tip
68. Reflect after a worked example Tip 69. Beware of seductive
details Chapter 9: Student practice Tip 70. Eight ideas to improve
student practice time Tip 71. How to harness the hidden power of
interleaving Tip 72. Consider using Intelligent Practice Tip 73.
Consider using 'no-number' questions Tip 74. Nine ideas to help you
observe student work with a purpose Tip 75. Occasionally let
students do work in someone else's book Chapter 10: Memory and
retrieval Retrieval opportunities Tip 76. Show your students the
Forgetting Curve Tip 77. Show your students the path to high
storage and retrieval strength Tip 78. Show your students the
limits of working memory Tip 79. Show your students how long-term
memory helps thinking Tip 80. Show your students that being
familiar with something is not the same as knowing it Tip 81.
Ensure you provide retrieval opportunities for all content Tip 82.
When designing retrieval opportunities, aim for 80% Tip 83. Vary
the types of retrieval questions you ask Tip 84. Consider providing
prompts and cues during retrieval opportunities Tip 85. Get your
students to assign confidence scores to their answers Tip 86. Make
corrections quizzable Tip 87. Twenty-one ideas to improve your
Low-Stakes Quizzes Tip 88. Fifteen ideas to improve the Do Now Tip
89. Consider using Trello to help organise the disorganised Chapter
11: Homework, marking and feedback Tip 90. Make homework feed into
lessons Tip 91. Eight ideas to improve homework Tip 92. Two things
to check if homework or test scores are a surprise Tip 93. Be
careful how you respond to 'silly' mistakes Tip 94. Turn feedback
into detective work Tip 95. Consider recording verbal feedback Tip
96. Twelve ideas to improve whole-class feedback Chapter 12:
Improving as a teacher Tip 97. Find the expertise within your team
Tip 98. Five different people to learn from Tip 99. Revisit
education books and podcast episodes Tip 100. Four things to
consider when trying something new Tip 101. Five ideas to help
tackle the negativity radio Tip 102. Consider slowing down your
career Tip 103. Sixteen ideas to improve the delivery of CPD Tip
104. Micro tips Tip 105. If you want more tips...
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