Tips for Teachers Craig Barton

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)

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

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)

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

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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