{"product_id":"tips-for-teachers-400-ideas-to-improve-your-teaching-von-craig-barton","title":"Tips for Teachers: 400+ ideas to improve your teaching","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTeaching is complex. But there are simple ideas we can enact to help our teaching be more effective. This book contains over 400 such ideas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInside 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBook contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 1: How to use this book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTip 1. How to use this book to improve your teaching\u003cbr\u003eTip 2. How to give yourself the best chance of making a lasting change\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 2: Habits and routines \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhy are habits and routines important? \u003cbr\u003eTip 3. Eight ideas to help introduce a routine\u003cbr\u003eTip 4. Beware of the Valley of Latent Potential\u003cbr\u003eTip 5. Two ideas to help a routine stick\u003cbr\u003eTip 6. Develop a set of high-value activity structures\u003cbr\u003eTip 7. Six ideas to help establish positive norms in your classroom\u003cbr\u003eTip 8. Four types of words to consider removing from your teaching vocabulary\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 3: The means of participation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA challenge\u003cbr\u003eTip 9. Front-load the means of participation\u003cbr\u003eTip 10. Ten ideas to improve Cold Call\u003cbr\u003eTip 11. Eight reasons to strive for mass participation more frequently\u003cbr\u003eTip 12. Twenty-two ideas to improve the use of mini-whiteboards\u003cbr\u003eTip 13. Five ideas to improve the use of voting systems \u003cbr\u003eTip 14. Nine ideas to improve Call and Response\u003cbr\u003eTip 15. Fifteen ideas to improve Partner Talk\u003cbr\u003eTip 16. Six ideas to improve group work\u003cbr\u003eTip 17. Use the means of participation holy trinity\u003cbr\u003eTip 18. Never rely on a mental note\u003cbr\u003eTip 19. The best tool for the long term might not be the best tool for now\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 4: Checking for understanding\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTip 20. Think of questions as a check for misunderstanding\u003cbr\u003eTip 21. Use the temptation to ask for self-report as a cue to ask a better question\u003cbr\u003eTip 22. Lengthen wait times after asking a question\u003cbr\u003eTip 23. Lengthen wait times after an answer\u003cbr\u003eTip 24. Ten types of questions to ask when checking for understanding\u003cbr\u003eTip 25. Try these three frameworks for learner-generated examples\u003cbr\u003eTip 26. Three ways to use diagnostic questions to check for understanding\u003cbr\u003eTip 27. Provide scaffolds for verbal responses\u003cbr\u003eTip 28. Six key times to check for understanding\u003cbr\u003eTip 29. Ten ideas to improve Exit Tickets\u003cbr\u003eTip 30. Pick the student least likely to know\u003cbr\u003eTip 31. Start with whoever got 8 out of 10\u003cbr\u003eTip 32. Ten ideas to help create a culture of error\u003cbr\u003eTip 33. Three ideas to encourage students to ask questions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 5: Responsive teaching\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTip 34. Trick your students to test if they really understand\u003cbr\u003eTip 35. Never round-up\u003cbr\u003eTip 36. Six ideas if a student says 'I don't know'\u003cbr\u003eTip 37. What to do when some students understand and some don't\u003cbr\u003eTip 38. What to do when some students still don't understand\u003cbr\u003eTip 39. How students can own and record classroom discussions\u003cbr\u003eTip 40. Share students' work with the rest of the class\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 6: Planning\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTip 41. Seven ideas to improve a scheme of work\u003cbr\u003eTip 42. Six ideas to help start the planning process\u003cbr\u003eTip 43. Plan to do less, but better\u003cbr\u003eTip 44. Ask yourself: 'What are my students likely to be thinking about?'\u003cbr\u003eTip 45. Write out ideal student responses\u003cbr\u003eTip 46. Four ideas to help you plan for and respond to errors\u003cbr\u003eTip 47. Two ideas to help teachers engage in Deep Work \u003cbr\u003eTip 48. Aim to close the loop when sending an email\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 7: Prior knowledge\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTip 49. Plan relevant prior knowledge\u003cbr\u003eTip 50. Prioritise relevant prior knowledge\u003cbr\u003eTip 51. Assess relevant prior knowledge\u003cbr\u003eTip 52. Respond to prior knowledge assessment\u003cbr\u003eTip 53. Assess relevant prior knowledge for each idea, not for the whole sequence\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 8: Explanations, modelling and worked examples\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTip 54. Five ideas to show students why what we are learning today matters\u003cbr\u003eTip 55. Use related examples and non-examples to explain technical language\u003cbr\u003eTip 56. Fourteen ideas to improve the explanation of a concept\u003cbr\u003eTip 57. Teach decision making separately\u003cbr\u003eTip 58. Five ideas to improve our choice of examples\u003cbr\u003eTip 59. Model techniques live\u003cbr\u003eTip 60. Use a teacher worked-examples book\u003cbr\u003eTip 61. Use student worked-examples books\u003cbr\u003eTip 62. Make use of the power of Example-Problem Pairs\u003cbr\u003eTip 63. Fourteen ideas to improve Silent Teacher\u003cbr\u003eTip 64. Use self-explanation prompts to help develop your students' understanding \u003cbr\u003eTip 65. Six ideas to improve 'copy down the worked example'\u003cbr\u003eTip 66. Vary the means of participation for the We Do\u003cbr\u003eTip 67. Three errors to avoid with the Your Turn questions\u003cbr\u003eTip 68. Reflect after a worked example\u003cbr\u003eTip 69. Beware of seductive details\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 9: Student practice\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTip 70. Eight ideas to improve student practice time\u003cbr\u003eTip 71. How to harness the hidden power of interleaving\u003cbr\u003eTip 72. Consider using Intelligent Practice\u003cbr\u003eTip 73. Consider using 'no-number' questions\u003cbr\u003eTip 74. Nine ideas to help you observe student work with a purpose\u003cbr\u003eTip 75. Occasionally let students do work in someone else's book\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 10: Memory and retrieval\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRetrieval opportunities\u003cbr\u003eTip 76. Show your students the Forgetting Curve\u003cbr\u003eTip 77. Show your students the path to high storage and retrieval strength\u003cbr\u003eTip 78. Show your students the limits of working memory\u003cbr\u003eTip 79. Show your students how long-term memory helps thinking\u003cbr\u003eTip 80. Show your students that being familiar with something is not the same as knowing it\u003cbr\u003eTip 81. Ensure you provide retrieval opportunities for all content\u003cbr\u003eTip 82. When designing retrieval opportunities, aim for 80%\u003cbr\u003eTip 83. Vary the types of retrieval questions you ask\u003cbr\u003eTip 84. Consider providing prompts and cues during retrieval opportunities\u003cbr\u003eTip 85. Get your students to assign confidence scores to their answers\u003cbr\u003eTip 86. Make corrections quizzable\u003cbr\u003eTip 87. Twenty-one ideas to improve your Low-Stakes Quizzes\u003cbr\u003eTip 88. Fifteen ideas to improve the Do Now\u003cbr\u003eTip 89. Consider using Trello to help organise the disorganised\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 11: Homework, marking and feedback\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTip 90. Make homework feed into lessons\u003cbr\u003eTip 91. Eight ideas to improve homework\u003cbr\u003eTip 92. Two things to check if homework or test scores are a surprise \u003cbr\u003eTip 93. Be careful how you respond to 'silly' mistakes\u003cbr\u003eTip 94. Turn feedback into detective work\u003cbr\u003eTip 95. Consider recording verbal feedback\u003cbr\u003eTip 96. Twelve ideas to improve whole-class feedback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 12: Improving as a teacher\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTip 97. Find the expertise within your team\u003cbr\u003eTip 98. Five different people to learn from\u003cbr\u003eTip 99. Revisit education books and podcast episodes\u003cbr\u003eTip 100. Four things to consider when trying something new\u003cbr\u003eTip 101. Five ideas to help tackle the negativity radio\u003cbr\u003eTip 102. Consider slowing down your career\u003cbr\u003eTip 103. Sixteen ideas to improve the delivery of CPD \u003cbr\u003eTip 104. Micro tips\u003cbr\u003eTip 105. 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