If you can’t reach me physically, how can Teacher Toolkit reach you?
I have started to experiment again with webinars, recording my own presentations at my desk in order to meet the demands of my readers. Discover two of my latest webinar presentations below…
Teacher training on your sofa…
Many of you have said that you have been unable to get out of school or to attend one of my teacher training sessions. I soon realised that the most obvious solution was to record myself at home and produce a series of resources for you to access. For ten years, every idea and resource has been shared randomly on hyperlinks with no one-stop-shop for you to find them. This has now changed. So far, over 45,000 of you have chosen to download some of my resources since I began storing resources formally on this website in January 2019. This page is rapidly becoming the most popular location on this website and is making me think more and more about resources, not blog posts.
Webinar: The verbal feedback project
This webinar explores the UCL Verbal Feedback Research and the impact of verbal feedback approaches on outcomes for disadvantaged students, particularly in terms of student engagement and teacher workload.
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This file contains a webinar-tutorial (short and long), plus a PDF and set of slides you can edit for yourself.
Webinar: Getting started with action research
The methods used in the above project are very useful tools to enable time-poor teachers to access research methods, using techniques to adopt for appraisal, action research and professional development sessions in school and college settings. In this short webinar, I unpick why research is a problem for teachers and also highlight why it is an important aspect of school life. The reader will take away a set of ideas to allow you to get started…
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This file contains a webinar-tutorial, plus a PDF resource pack and set of slides you can edit for yourself.
As I dig through my own research and hard drive, I plan to upload hundreds of more ideas throughout 2020, kickstarting a simple subscription service for readers. Teachers don’t need to know more staff, they need to be given more time in which to practise. Take time to upskill…