Tips for Teachers

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)

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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)

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Five tips to improve the Do Now at the start of your lesson

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Five tips to improve the use of Silent Teacher in the classroom.

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Five tips to improve checking for understanding in the classroom.

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Five tips to improve the use of mini-whiteboards in the classroom.

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Five tips to improve student paired discussions in the classroom.

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Teacher, author and podcaster, Ollie Lovell, joins us on the Tips for Teacher podcast to share his 5 tips:

1. How to overcome the limits of working memory (03:39)

2. Backwards plan. ALWAYS backwards plan! (22:16)

3. Check for understanding (34:03)

4. Inquire into mechanisms (44:25)

5. You can learn something from everybody (57:43)

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Head of English and author, Sarah Donarski, joins us on the Tips for Teacher podcast to share her 5 tips:

1. Know how to effectively assess (03:31)

2. Choose the right feedback type (17:00)

3. Be aware of student bias (29:59)

4. Use, where possible, dialogic teaching (46:25)

5. Ignite the CPD culture (1:04:15)

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Assistant headteacher, Jade Pearce, joins us on the Tips for Teacher podcast to share her 5 tips:

1. Use explicit instruction for novice learners (02:39)

2. How to ensure questioning involves all pupils (14:20)

3. Understand the active ingredients of retrieval practice (25:45)

4. How to improve feedback (38:45)

5. The power of teachers reading research (49:50)

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