Tips for Teachers

Primary teacher and author Emma Turner joins us on the Tips for Teacher podcast to share her 5 tips:

1. Use talk cubes to encourage students to contribute (02:48)

2. Encourage students to say "stop!" if they are confused during an explanation (08:45)

3. Ask students "What was the most useful thing I did today?" (16:11)

4. Plan for error (20:22)

5. Keep spare mini-whiteboard pen lids (26:55)

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Primary teacher and reading expert Chris Such joins us on the Tips for Teacher podcast to share his 5 tips:

1. Learn about reading development (03:31)

2. Analyse words using morphology and etymology (19:21)

3. Assess reading difficulties and respond (26:53)

4. Feign enthusiasm when necessary (38:54)

5. Depressurise learning (48:17)

6. BONUS: 7 micro-tips (1:04:37)

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English teacher and author, Jamie Thom, joins us on the Tips for Teacher podcast to share his 5 tips:

1. Remember the tortoise and the hare (04:34)

2. Tackle the negativity radio (15:01)

3. Beware the distraction addiction (28:28)

4. Hone your public speaking (45:56)

5. Validate introverts (56:30)

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The queen of GCSE maths re-sit teaching, Julia Smith, joins us on the Tips for Teacher podcast to share her 5 tips:

1. Practice, practice, practice…not until you can get it right but until you cannot get it wrong (04:24)

2. Revision should start from day one of a course, not at the end (12:57)

3. It ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you do it…and that’s what gets results (23:13)

4. Fluency in the four operations is a cornerstone of developing mathematical understanding (33:27)

5. How to deal with students who say they hate maths or are no good at maths (44:28)

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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)

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Teacher trainer and former teacher Sarah Cottingham joins us on the Tips for Teacher podcast to share her 5 tips:

1. Use tips when they act as solutions to problems you face (04:16)

2. Always build from what they know (17:21)

3. Beware the curse of knowledge (30:14)

4. Use research on learning not as a prescription but as a compass (38:56)

5. Retrieval practice is worth investing time to understand and use (48:51)

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Psychologist and former teacher Bradley Busch joins us on the Tips for Teacher podcast to share his 5 tips:

1. Consider lengthening wait times to maximise retrieval (03:16)

2. To develop resilience you need both high challenge and high support (13:22)

3. Challenge students on what they like versus what's best for them (21:56)

4. Ban mobile phones (29:05)

5. Ask yourself "what evidence would change your mind?" (39:11)

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Behaviour adviser and researchEd founder Tom Bennett joins us on the Tips for Teacher podcast to share his 5 tips:

1. Use the school behaviour policy (02:56)

2. Teach students what to do when they are stuck (08:27)

3. Teach students how to behave in a supply or cover lesson (15:05)

4. Teach students how to have the right equipment (20:23)

5. Students need to know you are in charge of the classroom (27:48)

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Languages teacher Jon Mumford joins us on the Tips for Teacher podcast to share her 5 tips:

1. Consider the impact of audio feedback (04:57)

2. Think creatively when attempting to improve engagement/performance of boys (22:06)

3. Use D.I.R.T. as a post-assessment formative tool (44:11)

4. How to get students peer-assessing with group critique (57:03)

5. How to organise the disorganised (1:08:52)

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Kate Jones joins us on the Tips for Teacher podcast to share her 5 tips:

1. Sometimes it is better to review than retrieve (03:33) 

2. Make use of the Encoding specificity principle (19:46)

3. Take a low effort, high impact approach to task and question design (34:28)

4. How to make the best use of technology for retrieval practice (48:34)

5. How to design good multiple choice questions (1:06:21)

Access the show notes and audio transcription of the episode, plus a load more audio and video tips here: tipsforteachers.co.uk