Primary Headteacher Sonia Thompson joins us on the Tips for Teacher podcast to share her 5 tips:
1. Read for pleasure and read for progress (03:30)
2. Be clear about your career pathway (12:42)
3.  Make use of the NPQs (23:03)
4. Go out and visit other schools (28:43)
5. Think about implementation (40:22)
Access the show notes and audio transcription of the episode, plus a load more audio and video tips here: tipsforteachers.co.uk

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Former English teacher and now best-selling author, Alex Quigley, joins us on the Tips for Teacher podcast to share his 5 tips:
1. Ask students to make a pre-topic mind map (02:55)
2. Focus on developing keystone vocabulary (17:58)
3. Try using a collage collection to stimulate ideas (32:24)
4. Play "Just a minute!" (44:32)
5. Support your students using sentence expanding (1:00:30)
Access the show notes and audio transcription of the episode, plus a load more audio and video tips here: tipsforteachers.co.uk



Alex Quigley

Teacher and author David Goodwin, joins us on the Tips for Teacher podcast to share his 5 tips:
1. Provide opportunities for students to read in lessons (04:23)
2. Develop vocabulary (16:45)
3. Rebrand homework as practice (25:08)
4. How to improve students' ability to write (33:33)
5. How to make retrieval practice work (45:53)
Access the show notes and audio transcription of the episode, plus a load more audio and video tips here: tipsforteachers.co.uk



David Goodwin

Five tips to improve the Do Now at the start of your lesson
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The Do Now - Tips for Teachers Top 5s

Five tips to improve the use of Silent Teacher in the classroom.
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Silent Teacher - Tips for Teachers Top 5s

Five tips to improve checking for understanding in the classroom.
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Sonia Thompson

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