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No 16. The Right Handed Teacher: Organising your Seating Plan
This picture is from here I once read somewhere that right handed teachers spend most of their time talking to the right hand side of the classroom. Whilst I had been conscious of using certain words...
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No 17. Don’t say yes to everything: How To Learn To Say “No”
Schools are full of opportunities for pupils and teachers alike. Teachers by the nature of the job are kind and caring individuals that are genuinely helpful. When you join a school you can be put...
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No 18. Pupil Tracking
This picture is from here It’s all very well to keep your own records of pupil progress, but do your students know how well they are progressing? In theory yes as their exercise book will be littered...
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No 20. What are the proposed changes to GCSE?
The image above is from here. When we are teaching day to day we sometimes don’t make time to read about future proposals. We may hear about changes on the news but sometimes are too busy to...
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No 21. There is no ‘Indispensable Man’
The image above is from here Next time you agree to give up your weekend to do go on a Duke of Edinburgh Expedition or drive a minibus on a Friday night in heavy traffic to take students to a debating...
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No 22. Lesson Observation Checklist: Do you deliver outstanding lessons?
The image above is sourced from here. Here is a checklist of different lesson levels that can be used when observing lessons. It can be used in various ways – here are a few suggestions. Used by a...
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No 23. The Pedagogy Wheel
Bloom’s Taxonomy is always talked about in education showing the different learning objectives that pupils should achieve. For a more up to date version have a look at the pedagogy wheel which gives...
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No 25. Interview Questions
This picture is from here We have all been there and had to go through the dredded interview process before landing that dream job. Well to save some stress, here are twenty interview questions that...
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No 26. Exam Question Revision
This picture is from here Practising exam questions is always dull for both the pupil and teacher. It is often hard to get pupils motivated to answer particularly the longer exam style questions. A...
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No 48. Make better powerpoint slides using an assertion-evidence structure
If I ask a class to produce a presentation on a topic we are covering then students will on mass create slides with the following traps. Too many words on the slide which they will probably read as the...
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