Checking for understanding - Tips for Teachers Top 5s

This special edition of the Tips for Teachers podcast comes live from Manchester Piccadilly station following MathsConf30. Jo Morgan and I discuss our takeaways from the workshops we saw, including: Jo: 1. Assess pre-requisites 2. Use a variety of techniques for differentiation  3. Plan a …

Curriculum expert, Mary Myatt, joins us on the Tips for Teacher podcast to share her 5 tips: 1. We should all be focussing on doing fewer things and greater depth (04:06) 2. Focus on the concepts and the Big Ideas in our curriculum (13:03) 3. We know more and remember more when we've heard it in…

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…

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 …