How to make your lessons outstanding
Kelly Wood is assistant head at Southdale C of E junior school in West Yorkshire and she won the Specialist Schools and A
Mark Me: using comments to drive behaviour
Marking is seen by many as a vile, Sisyphian chore, the tax on your teaching time.
Tips to help you deal with sarcasm in the classroom
Sarcasm is, I am told, the last refuge of scoundrels. I'm not sure why this is.
A realistic guide to lesson planning
Increasingly, there is a formal and written expectation that newly qualified teachers will have a completed lesson plan for every lesson they teach. I am not sure what to think of this.
The importance of a good seating plan
There are different schools of thought on the seating plan.
Gifted and talented pupils
There will be, in every school, some exceptionally bright or talented students; statistically, this is very probable, in any population with over a few hundred.
The low-down on A-level teaching
A-level teaching presents unusual and exacting challenges to any teacher.
A guide to getting to know your pupils
Teaching is an interactive process that requires an ever-changing system of exchange and negotiation between you and your pupils.
Differentiation: setting learning objectives and outcomes
Schools will use different systems for setting objectives, but it's expected that pupils will know – by being told or by seeing these displayed on the board – what the learning objectives are.
Tried and tested questioning strategies
Questioning is most effective when it allows pupils to become fully involved in the learning process.