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Omg!!! My first piece of writing! Be kind

How to get them to think/participate? Cold calling - plan great questions - tell them to expect questions - pose a question, provide silent thinking time - (warm) invitation, not interrogation - maintain participation, bring others in... @researchEDBrum #rEDBrum @MrGoodwin23

WOW!! That's remarkable... and it's been replicated. Reading 2 books for 12 weeks increased reading age between 8 and 16 months. Phenomenal. With @MaryMyatt @researchEDBrum #rEDBrum

Are you looking to harness feedback and pupil understanding in the classroom to adapt your teaching? The new Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) ‘Check.Adapt’ tool offers a simple scaffold for reflection. Find it here: educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/news/checking-…

GCSE History Teachers - Edexcel When do you finish teaching content?

Do any English teachers know of any touring companies who present on An Inspector Calls/ Romeo and Juliet or Jekyll and Hyde?

This week marks the 1st anniversary of Power Up Your Questioning: amzn.eu/d/0iZr8iyt To celebrate, Grace Hudson (@MissH_biology) has been working with me to produce a collection of superb sketchnotes, summarising each of the six themes from the book. This is the first one👇 The full collection is available to download for Teaching PowerUps member schools: teachingpowerups.com

I’ve finally got round to sharing my infographics from our ‘How Learning Happens’ INSET day back in November which many of you requested! The PDFs can be found on my google drive here: drive.google.com/drive/folders/… a huge thank you to everyone I’ve referenced for the inspiration! 🌟🌟

I have just pushed live a MASSIVE update of my Mr Barton Maths website - all 100% free. If you find it useful, please help spread the word by sharing this post 🙏

Does teacher centred teaching reduce inequality? Yes according to this study. Explicit instruction is associated with higher mathematics attainment for low SES pupils, while student centred instruction shows no such equity effect. Takeaways: if the goal is to reduce inequality in mathematics outcomes, structured, explicit, teacher led approaches may provide a stronger academic return for pupils from less advantaged backgrounds. Both approaches were equally distributed across SES groups. The difference lay in outcomes. Student centred teaching is not automatically more equitable. In some contexts, it may simply advantage those who already possess background knowledge. tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

🚨🚨CPD Thread 🚨🚨 Delivering CPD to teachers/leaders is always an honour. A thread of some of the sessions I've delivered recently: 1. A session for Samworth Academy giving teachers strategies to ensure their implementation of their T&L priorities is as effective as possible.

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@georginallsop @Just_Maths This is great. Thank you

@MsGHist @Just_Maths Some examples here of how we use exit tickets. All of these show ones that have been pre made but we also have blank ones which can be used a bit more ‘responsively in the moment’ as I can just display a question/s on the board and get pupils to answer in the ‘my work’ column.

Maths Heads of Dept/Teachers I’m looking for advice and examples of feedback given in maths. Let me know if you can help please

@Tjag23 Yes this is what I want to show. Just looking for some examples of what this looks like in Maths

@MsGHist Any feedback should take into account how students are going to take it on board. I’ve found marking 30 books with ticks and comments, pointless. Often students don’t read the comments or remember them. Feedback given in real time during the lesson is often best

it’s that time of year when I get ready for Year 11 revision and make them these question structure keyrings that have gone down so well in previous years. 200 made by hand for every single student ⭐️

Can anyone recommend anyone who offers GCSE English revision during the holidays? Looking at options for us to support students with extra intervention

In our latest Substack, we explore how vocabulary is knowledge to be built, not a strategy to be deployed. Through explicit instruction, implicit support, and recursive practice, words move from exposure to ownership. hubs.la/Q0411QW00

We've worked hard on our PP strategies this year to look to the best research, embed it in everything, starting with the SIP. We are reviewing constantly. It matters. Pupil premium papers show schools snub effective strategies share.google/ItqYUmA2rjikoo…

@greeborunner I have a whole different take on reading since @Doug_Lemov sent me The Science of Reading to summarise... And I teach physics. Now I realise what I should have been doing (as should parents). itsalearningcurve.education/cogsci-book-su…