✨Top Tips for Teachers‪✨‬ Alexandros Ayeni

Students retain 90% of what they learn through teaching others. Of course, learning cannot happen in this way all the time, and in order to get the best out of this method, you need to give your students the tools they need to implement it.

Your challenge: In one of your lessons ask a selection of students to research a particular topic in your subject, and to teach it by delivering a presentation to the class.

Written and Recorded by Roi Campbell and Alexandros Ayeni

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Remind students that learning is challenging and uncomfortable at times. We have bought into the myth that our lessons are always meant to be fun. They aren’t. Your lessons are allowed to be challenging and frustrating.

Your challenge: Ask your students to write down one thing they learned when they were younger (like riding a bike) and ask them to describe the process.

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It is not your job to close the learning gap, but to support your students in closing the gap for themselves through their own efforts and by using techniques that work for them.

Your challenge: Share this idea of personal responsibility with your classes today.

Written and Recorded by Roi Campbell and Alexandros Ayeni

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Celebrate yourself. The school day is so centred on itself that you can often feel ignored. It’s only natural. Teaching is often described as a ‘thankless’ job, but it needn’t be a demoralising one as well.

Your challenge: Write down 5 things you are proud of and find a way to celebrate one of them today.

Written and Recorded by Roi Campbell and Alexandros Ayeni

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Do not control your classroom. Create an atmosphere that promotes the behaviour you want whilst giving students the tools to modify it when necessary.

Your challenge: Write down three ways you can empower your students to identify their own behaviours and remind them that it is their responsibility to exercise self-control.

Written and Recorded by Roi Campbell and Alexandros Ayeni

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Balance your behaviour management. Have you noticed how easy it is to hand out punishments and sanctions? Make more of an effort to praise and promote good behaviour.

Your challenge: For every detention or sanction you issue today, follow it up with two positive awards to other pupils in your classroom.

Written and Recorded by Roi Campbell and Alexandros Ayeni

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