39 episodes
Tips for Teachers Craig Barton
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4.8 • 48 Ratings
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A podcast to help your supercharge your teaching one idea at a time. Each episode guests share 5 tips for any aspect of life as a teacher: planning, assessment, wellbeing, saving time, talking to parents, and more.
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Alex Quigley
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 -
David Goodwin
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 -
The Do Now - Tips for Teachers Top 5s
Five tips to improve the Do Now at the start of your lesson
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Silent Teacher - Tips for Teachers Top 5s
Five tips to improve the use of Silent Teacher in the classroom.
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Checking for understanding - Tips for Teachers Top 5s
Five tips to improve checking for understanding in the classroom.
Video: https://youtu.be/Zt9WlMzCzWQ
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Mini-whiteboards - Tips for Teachers Top 5s
Five tips to improve the use of mini-whiteboards in the classroom.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBayieSHaK4
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Customer Reviews
The best pedagogy out there
There are many, but this is now the only one I listen to. Great format that is very accessible.
So many ideas
Someone else said the same there are other educational blogs but this by far is the best. I keep a list of the tips that resonate and always try them out in the classroom. Well presented!!
Gold
The ideas and tips flow freely. Always thought provoking and practical.