Effective Teaching

Assessment should replicate the real world, check for understanding, and match up with your learning goals and syllabus/curriculum outcomes. Find out how to create engaging and authentic tasks in just 4 steps.

Learn the connections between gardening and teaching in this episode with Dan Jackson. He is a great lover of a good garden and discusses how matching seeds, plants, and conditions in much the same thing as he does for his students. All in an effort to ensure they thrive.

Learn how to develop a rapport with your students so that you can have a positive impact, not just on their learning, but on their life. And make sure you head over to teacherspd.net/76 to get your free infographic.

Learn this basic 4 step process to creating engaging lessons that meet your students where they are, hook them into the learning and connect with them in an authentic way.

Flip your Classroom has been one of the most influential books on my approach to teaching. It revolutionised my teaching. Made me more impactful by giving me back the time in my classroom to then create rich and engaging learning experiences for my students. Come and learn all about what you will learn from this fantastic book by Jon Bergmann and Aaron Sams.

Want to learn a basic 4 step process you can use to create programs that are coherent and targetted to your students. The type of program that works with your students and helps them achieve. Check out Dan's 4 step process to creating gourmet units of work. - Comes with a free Infographic

Getting to know your students is one of the greatest things you can do as a teacher. It helps develop rapport, and when you use this information to differentiate your teaching there is magic that can happen. Learn more about 3 easy ways you can get to know your students this week.

Dylan Wiliam is the guru of formative assessment and has shared some fantastic strategies and approaches to education in his book Embedded Formative Assessment. Learn how to increase your impact and enable your students to become lifelong learners in this episode.

Coaches and mentors can have a huge impact on your teaching and as a result your students' learning. Learn 4 of the key benefits of a coach in this episode and how you can both improve your practice together. 

Discover how to make your first lesson of the year one where students feel welcomed, empowered and that enables you to develop their literacy from the very beginning with advice from Annette Gray.

Annette Gray is a literacy consultant and adviser. She has many years’ successful teaching experience in classrooms K-10 across Australia and in international settings.