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- Episode 114 - Stop lecturing! It's boring.
Research tells us that the teacher's voice dominates discussion in the classroom and boredom kills learning. Let's look at 4 things you can do instead of giving presentations and lectures to your students.
10 min - Episode 113 4 reasons teachers should schedule their time
Why I encourage every teacher who wants to reduce their workload to schedule their time.
11 min - Episode 112 Do we promote a culture of work or a culture of learning?
This episode contrasts a working culture with one of learning in a school classroom. There are plenty of tips to help a teacher create a more learning-centred classroom.
Grab a copy of my book Work Less, Teach More
11 min - Episode 111 How to use cognitive load effectively
Learn how to use cognitive load effectively in your classroom. How to reduce the load in some areas and empower your students' cognitive load in others.
23 min - Episode 110 Inquiry-based learning vs project-based learning
Discover the similarities and differences between inquiry-based learning and project-based learning. Which one should you use for your subject and which one is best for student learning?
20 min - Episode 109 6 Characteristics that always lead to effective teaching
Discover how to be an effective teacher by ensuring you have these 6 characteristics. Effective teaching results in long-lasting, high-impact teachers.
Get your free copy of the physical book Work Less, Teach More: How to be an effective teacher and live a life you love. By clicking here27 min - Episode 108 Applying how students learn - Collaborative Tasks and Cognitive Load
Discover how collaborative tasks can be used to reduce students' cognitive load and deepen their learning. As we continue to look at how students learn and applying this in our classroom this episode brings together cognitive load theory and collaborative tasks.
How to create collaborative tasks to maximise the advantage on cognitive load:- complex enough to justify the collaborative approach, if not the “extra collective working memory” leads the group members to become distracted and the learning does not happen.
- The collaborative task should have guidance and support. This can include group roles, topics to focus on, and scaffolds.
- The group requires good collaborative skills. If the students don’t generally collaborate well or have these skills it will cause an increase in cognitive load and distractions.
- The fewer members in the collaborative task the better. 3 is probably the ideal number. more than this causes an increase in cognitive load and a decrease in learning.
- The more the group has worked together the better the collaborative task will be at decreasing cognitive load and increasing the learning happening.
11 min - Episode 107 - How to work less while being an effective teacher
Do you want to work less and be an effective teacher? Then this video and this book are for you. Discover how you can reduce your workload while still being an effective teacher in the classroom. Having your own life does not have to compromise that of your students.
In this episode, I go through my book Work Less, Teach More: How to be an effective teacher and live a life you love. This book was a number 1 seller on Amazon when it first came out. Discover some of the great content such as:
- How to identify your highest priority tasks
- How to use schedules to enable you to say no to requests on your time
- How to improve your personal effectiveness
- How to set your day up for success
- How to select tasks to never do again and so much more.
You can get a free copy of the book at teacherspd.net/freewltm It's time to cut the fluff and start being effective not just productive!
44 min - Episode 106 Applying how students learn with Blooms
Most teachers know what Bloom's taxonomy is and use it in a very basic way. This episode takes a closer look and identifies how to leverage this taxonomy and improve student learning.
17 min - Episode 105 Applying how students learn - Imagery
Imagery is such a great way to help our students learn and remember content. Whether it be memorising a set of facts or connecting concepts. Imagery is what our brains are wired for.
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Through research and interviews Dan looks at all things education in order to help teachers implement strategies that focus on developing student capacity to be self-sufficient learners as well as…
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