{"product_id":"tips-for-teachers-400-ideas-to-improve-your-teaching-9781915261472","title":"Tips for Teachers: 400+ ideas to improve your teaching","description":"Teaching is complex. But there are simple ideas we can enact to help our teaching be more effective. This book contains over 400 such ideas.\n \nThe ideas come from two sources. First, from the wonderful guests on my \u003ci\u003eTips for Teachers\u003c\/i\u003e podcast - education heavyweights such as Dylan Wiliam, Daisy Christodoulou and Tom Sherrington, as well as talented teachers who are not household names but have so much wisdom to share. Then there's what I have learned from working with amazing teachers and students in hundreds of schools around the world.\n \nInside you will find 22 ideas to enhance mini-whiteboard use, 15 ideas to improve the start of your lesson, 14 ideas to help make Silent Teacher effective, seven ways to respond if a student says they don't know, and lots, lots more.\n \nEach idea can be implemented the very next time you step into a classroom. So, whatever your level of experience, subject or phase, there are plenty of ideas in this book to help take your teaching to the next level.\n\n\u003cb\u003eBook contents\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003eChapter 1: How to use this book\u003c\/b\u003e\nTip 1. How to use this book to improve your teaching\nTip 2. How to give yourself the best chance of making a lasting change\n\n\u003cb\u003eChapter 2: Habits and routines \u003c\/b\u003e\nWhy are habits and routines important? \nTip 3. Eight ideas to help introduce a routine\nTip 4. Beware of the Valley of Latent Potential\nTip 5. Two ideas to help a routine stick\nTip 6. Develop a set of high-value activity structures\nTip 7. Six ideas to help establish positive norms in your classroom\nTip 8. Four types of words to consider removing from your teaching vocabulary\n\n\u003cb\u003eChapter 3: The means of participation\u003c\/b\u003e\nA challenge\nTip 9. Front-load the means of participation\nTip 10. Ten ideas to improve Cold Call\nTip 11. Eight reasons to strive for mass participation more frequently\nTip 12. Twenty-two ideas to improve the use of mini-whiteboards\nTip 13. Five ideas to improve the use of voting systems \nTip 14. Nine ideas to improve Call and Response\nTip 15. Fifteen ideas to improve Partner Talk\nTip 16. Six ideas to improve group work\nTip 17. Use the means of participation holy trinity\nTip 18. Never rely on a mental note\nTip 19. The best tool for the long term might not be the best tool for now\n\n\u003cb\u003eChapter 4: Checking for understanding\u003c\/b\u003e\nTip 20. Think of questions as a check for misunderstanding\nTip 21. Use the temptation to ask for self-report as a cue to ask a better question\nTip 22. Lengthen wait times after asking a question\nTip 23. Lengthen wait times after an answer\nTip 24. Ten types of questions to ask when checking for understanding\nTip 25. Try these three frameworks for learner-generated examples\nTip 26. Three ways to use diagnostic questions to check for understanding\nTip 27. Provide scaffolds for verbal responses\nTip 28. Six key times to check for understanding\nTip 29. Ten ideas to improve Exit Tickets\nTip 30. Pick the student least likely to know\nTip 31. Start with whoever got 8 out of 10\nTip 32. Ten ideas to help create a culture of error\nTip 33. Three ideas to encourage students to ask questions\n\n\u003cb\u003eChapter 5: Responsive teaching\u003c\/b\u003e\nTip 34. Trick your students to test if they really understand\nTip 35. Never round-up\nTip 36. Six ideas if a student says 'I don't know'\nTip 37. What to do when some students understand and some don't\nTip 38. What to do when some students still don't understand\nTip 39. How students can own and record classroom discussions\nTip 40. Share students' work with the rest of the class\n\n\u003cb\u003eChapter 6: Planning\u003c\/b\u003e\nTip 41. Seven ideas to improve a scheme of work\nTip 42. Six ideas to help start the planning process\nTip 43. Plan to do less, but better\nTip 44. Ask yourself: 'What are my students likely to be thinking about?'\nTip 45. Write out ideal student responses\nTip 46. Four ideas to help you plan for and respond to errors\nTip 47. Two ideas to help teachers engage in Deep Work \nTip 48. Aim to close the loop when sending an email\n\n\u003cb\u003eChapter 7: Prior knowledge\u003c\/b\u003e\nTip 49. Plan relevant prior knowledge\nTip 50. Prioritise relevant prior knowledge\nTip 51. Assess relevant prior knowledge\nTip 52. Respond to prior knowledge assessment\nTip 53. Assess relevant prior knowledge for each idea, not for the whole sequence\n\n\u003cb\u003eChapter 8: Explanations, modelling and worked examples\u003c\/b\u003e\nTip 54. Five ideas to show students why what we are learning today matters\nTip 55. Use related examples and non-examples to explain technical language\nTip 56. Fourteen ideas to improve the explanation of a concept\nTip 57. Teach decision making separately\nTip 58. Five ideas to improve our choice of examples\nTip 59. Model techniques live\nTip 60. Use a teacher worked-examples book\nTip 61. Use student worked-examples books\nTip 62. Make use of the power of Example-Problem Pairs\nTip 63. Fourteen ideas to improve Silent Teacher\nTip 64. Use self-explanation prompts to help develop your students' understanding \nTip 65. Six ideas to improve 'copy down the worked example'\nTip 66. Vary the means of participation for the We Do\nTip 67. Three errors to avoid with the Your Turn questions\nTip 68. Reflect after a worked example\nTip 69. Beware of seductive details\n\n\u003cb\u003eChapter 9: Student practice\u003c\/b\u003e\nTip 70. Eight ideas to improve student practice time\nTip 71. How to harness the hidden power of interleaving\nTip 72. Consider using Intelligent Practice\nTip 73. Consider using 'no-number' questions\nTip 74. Nine ideas to help you observe student work with a purpose\nTip 75. Occasionally let students do work in someone else's book\n\n\u003cb\u003eChapter 10: Memory and retrieval\u003c\/b\u003e\nRetrieval opportunities\nTip 76. Show your students the Forgetting Curve\nTip 77. Show your students the path to high storage and retrieval strength\nTip 78. Show your students the limits of working memory\nTip 79. Show your students how long-term memory helps thinking\nTip 80. Show your students that being familiar with something is not the same as knowing it\nTip 81. Ensure you provide retrieval opportunities for all content\nTip 82. When designing retrieval opportunities, aim for 80%\nTip 83. Vary the types of retrieval questions you ask\nTip 84. Consider providing prompts and cues during retrieval opportunities\nTip 85. Get your students to assign confidence scores to their answers\nTip 86. Make corrections quizzable\nTip 87. Twenty-one ideas to improve your Low-Stakes Quizzes\nTip 88. Fifteen ideas to improve the Do Now\nTip 89. Consider using Trello to help organise the disorganised\n\n\u003cb\u003eChapter 11: Homework, marking and feedback\u003c\/b\u003e\nTip 90. Make homework feed into lessons\nTip 91. Eight ideas to improve homework\nTip 92. Two things to check if homework or test scores are a surprise \nTip 93. Be careful how you respond to 'silly' mistakes\nTip 94. Turn feedback into detective work\nTip 95. Consider recording verbal feedback\nTip 96. Twelve ideas to improve whole-class feedback\n\n\u003cb\u003eChapter 12: Improving as a teacher\u003c\/b\u003e\nTip 97. Find the expertise within your team\nTip 98. Five different people to learn from\nTip 99. Revisit education books and podcast episodes\nTip 100. Four things to consider when trying something new\nTip 101. Five ideas to help tackle the negativity radio\nTip 102. Consider slowing down your career\nTip 103. Sixteen ideas to improve the delivery of CPD \nTip 104. Micro tips\nTip 105. 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