Teaching and Learning Archives

Teaching With The Classroom Next Door In Mind …

16th June 201916th June 2019 @TeacherToolkit 1357 Views 0 Comments Behaviour, consistency, decision making, Difficult Conversations, Diluted Drinks, Experienced Teacher, leadership, Mark-Plan-Teach, Newly Qualified Teacher, Orange Juice, Routines, sugar, Teaching and Learning, wisdom, Workload

Reading Time: 3 minutes How can teachers support one another without doing more work?

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International Podcasts Research

Podcast 51 – Teacher Ethics, Burnout and Demoralisation

15th June 201917th June 2019 Joshua McGovern 1201 Views 0 Comments #TTkit100Women, Academia, America, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Curriculum, Demoralized, Doris A. Santoro, Education Policy, ethics, Gender, higher education, Maine, Philosophy, Principled Resistance, Research, School Funding, Sexuality, social-media, Teaching and Learning, USA, Women in Education, Workload

Reading Time: 2 minutes Are teachers demoralised or burnt out, and why do teachers have a reluctance to say ‘no’?

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Coaching Leadership Teaching and Learning

Talk Up Teaching

9th June 20199th June 2019 @TeacherToolkit 1001 Views 3 Comments assumptions, Bad Science, grading lessons, Learning Walks, middle leader, Observations, Reception, Reliable, silly, Teaching and Learning, Tom Sherrington

Reading Time: 3 minutes Why do teachers and schools impose silly ideas on one other?

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Assessment Teaching and Learning Workload

Comparative Assessment In The Classroom

1st June 201931st May 2019 @TeacherToolkit 1350 Views 0 Comments #30ClassroomIdeas, Alistair Pollitt, Assessment, CENTURY Tech, Comparative Assessment, comparative judgement, Daisy Christodoulou, EdTech, Feedback, Goldsmiths College, Louis L. Thurstone, Marking, No More Marking, Peer assessment, Priya Lakhani, Professor Richard Kimbell, Research, Revision, self-assessment, Teaching and Learning, This is Century, Video, Workload

Reading Time: 2 minutes What is comparative assessment and how can teachers use it in their classroom?

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Coaching Teaching and Learning Workload

Imagine (Always) Not Being Good Enough

28th May 201928th May 2019 @TeacherToolkit 1176 Views 0 Comments Appraisal, Cambridge University, Chartered College of Teaching, checklist, Coaching, Collective Teacher Efficacy, Doctorate, grading lessons, Grading Schools, modus operandi, Observations, Outstanding, Teaching and Learning, Workload

Reading Time: 3 minutes Are you good enough to be a teacher?

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Behaviour Policies Teaching and Learning

Does Your Behaviour Policy Support Learning?

21st March 201921st March 2019 @TeacherToolkit 1307 Views 4 Comments Behaviour, Behaviour Policy, Classroom Management, Learning, Newly Qualified Teacher, NQT, Sanctions, school policies, Standing Up, Starter Activity, Teaching and Learning

Reading Time: 3 minutes Is your behaviour management a waste of valuable learning time?

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Ofsted Research Teaching and Learning

The Analysis of Classroom Observations

17th March 201917th March 2019 @TeacherToolkit 2750 Views 17 Comments Curriculum, Faculty of Education, Lev Vygotsky, Neil Mercer, Observations, Teaching and Learning, The British Psychological Society, University of Cambridge, Verbal Feedback, Verbal Feedback Project

Reading Time: 3 minutes How should teachers conduct lesson observations of other teachers?

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Ofsted Parenting Teaching and Learning

Are Parent View Questions Dangerous?

10th March 20199th March 2019 @TeacherToolkit 1725 Views 4 Comments #TakeAwayHmk, classroom observation, data collection, EIF 2019, Google Classroom, Homework, Microsoft Office 2010, Ofsted, Parent View, Parents, School Inspections, Teaching and Learning

Reading Time: 3 minutes How do parents know what good teaching is?

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Leadership Policies Teaching and Learning

Probably The Best Teaching and Learning In The World

24th February 20198th June 2019 @TeacherToolkit 2800 Views 1 Comment accountability, autonomy, common vernacular, Compliance, consistency, Feedback, Great Kingshill Combined School, High Wycombe, Mark-Plan-Teach, Marking, Mental Health, Ofsted, Policy, School Inspection, school policies, Statutory, Suzanne Best, Teaching and Learning, Wellbeing, Workload

Reading Time: 3 minutes How can schools secure the balance between autonomy and accountability in the classroom?

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Assessment Middle Leadership Podcasts

Podcast 31: Is A Results-Based Education System A Good Idea?

4th November 201812th November 2018 Joshua McGovern 1323 Views 0 Comments #TTkit100Women, #TTkitPodcast, Alice Ferguson, Assessment, boys, challenge, Exams, experiment, girls, Head of Science, leadership, Middle Leadership, motivation, piggot school, Podcast, science, Teaching and Learning, women, WomenEd

Reading Time: 1 minute Is a results-based education system a good idea?

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Leadership Research Teaching and Learning

7 Deadly School Sins

10th June 201811th June 2018 @TeacherToolkit 9054 Views 12 Comments Appraisal, Data, Graham Nuthall, Lesson grading, Lesson planning, Marking, Measures of Effective Teaching, MockSTED, Myths, Ofsted, Professor Robert Coe, sins, Teaching and Learning, Value Added Measures, Work Scrutiny

Reading Time: 6 minutes What if schools could work more effectively?

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International Research Teaching and Learning

The Cultural Myths of Teaching and Learning

9th June 201820th July 2018 @TeacherToolkit 3715 Views 1 Comment Adrienne Alton-Lee, Cultural, Cultural Myths, Culture, film, Graham Nuthall, Jean Piaget, Lev Vygotsky, Myths, New Zealand, PhD, Research, Ritual, Tape-Recorders, Teaching and Learning, The Hidden Lives of Learners, University of Canterbury

Reading Time: 9 minutes How does culture shape our understanding of both the teaching and learning process?

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Teacher Training Teaching and Learning Video

Designing Teacher Instruction For Student Achievement

27th May 201813th May 2019 @TeacherToolkit 2477 Views 0 Comments #30ClassroomIdeas, classroom strategies, explanation, instruction, John Hattie, MINT, success criteria, Teacher Clarity, Teacher Instruction, teaching, Teaching and Learning, Video, YouTube

Reading Time: 2 minutes How can we ensure teacher instruction is clear and is meaningful?

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Assessment Video Workload

Yellow Box Methodology

19th May 201813th May 2019 @TeacherToolkit 4651 Views 8 Comments #30ClassroomIdeas, Assessment, classroom strategies, manageable, Marking, meaningful, motivating, teaching, Teaching and Learning, Video, Workload, Yellow Box, YouTube

Reading Time: 2 minutes How can teachers reduce the day-to-day marking burden?

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Assessment Teaching and Learning Video

Fermi Questioning

28th April 201813th May 2019 @TeacherToolkit 3386 Views 2 Comments #30ClassroomIdeas, challenge, Creative Thinking, deliberate practice, Enrico Fermi, motivation, Nobel Peace Prize, Open Ended Questions, Pose Pause Pounce Bounce, Questioning, Questions, Teaching and Learning

Reading Time: 1 minute How can a teacher improve their questioning technique and increase impact?

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Leadership Staff Well Being Workload

Workload and Wellbeing Checklist for Schools

18th March 201828th January 2019 @TeacherToolkit 6958 Views 15 Comments Appraisal, audit, Behaviour, Centralised Detentions, checklist, Differentiation, Exit Interviews, grading lessons, Learning Walks, lesson plans, Marking, marking policies, Performance Management, Professional development, Recruitment, recruitment crisis, Retention, Self-evaluation, Teaching and Learning, Wellbeing, Work Scrutiny, Workload

Reading Time: 1 minute How do you know if your school is genuinely reducing teacher workload?

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Ofsted Policies Teaching and Learning

Should The Department for Education Ban Lesson Gradings?

4th March 20189th March 2018 @TeacherToolkit 2594 Views 3 Comments Appraisal, Attrition, CPD, Department for Education, DfE, Feedback, Investors In People, Marking, Ofsted, Parent View, Performance-related pay, Professional development, Professor Rob Coe, PRP, Recruitment, Retention, School Inspection, Teacher View, Teaching and Learning, Wellbeing, Workload

Reading Time: 3 minutes To help reduce workload and teacher attrition, should the DfE ban schools from using lesson gradings?

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