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Use, where possible, dialogic teaching - Tips for Teachers
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Be aware of student bias - Tips for Teachers
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Choose the right feedback type - Tips for Teachers
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Know how to effectively assess - Tips for Teachers
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The power of teachers reading research - Tips for Teachers
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How to improve feedback - Tips for Teachers
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Understand the active ingredients of retrieval practice - Tips for Teachers
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How to ensure questioning involves all pupils - Tips for Teachers
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Use explicit instruction for novice learners - Tips for Teachers
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The secret to a happy life - Tips for Teachers
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Learning doesn’t start in Year 7 - Tips for Teachers
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The principles of Cog Sci apply to humans (not just students) - Tips for Teachers
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Leave a legacy - Tips for Teachers
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Explicitly teach the skills an expert in your domain uses - Tips for Teachers
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Ask "who is this for?" - Tips for Teachers
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Provoke curiosity in our students - Tips for Teachers
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We know more and remember more when we've heard it in a story - Tips for Teachers
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Focus on the concepts and the Big Ideas in our curriculum - Tips for Teachers
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We should all be focussing on doing fewer things and greater depth - Tips for Teachers
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Nobody really knows what they are doing - Tips for Teachers
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Some behaviours are more important than others - Tips for Teachers
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Be explicit when modelling for colleagues - Tips for Teachers
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Treat the act of teacher development like teaching - Tips for Teachers
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Leave space between reading and implementation - Tips for Teachers
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Provide answers so pupils can check their work in real-time - Tips for Teachers
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Have your coffee whilst sitting in the classrooms of effective teachers - Tips for Teachers
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Teach in small chunks and fool kids into doing lots of work - Tips for Teachers
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Focus on explanations not resources - Tips for Teachers
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Teach behaviour lesson one - Tips for Teachers
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End every conversation with the student saying something smart - Tips for Teachers
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Use partner work as a chance to recruit quiet kids to share their thinking - Tips for Teachers
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Get used to asking “what if” after explaining something - Tips for Teachers
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The best feedback is a learning activity, and it’s much better than written feedback on the page
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Begin your explanations as a series of questions that everyone can answer - Tips for Teachers
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Give worked examples with retrieval starters - Tips for Teachers
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Modify your lessons as you go - Tips for Teachers
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Try teaching from anywhere in the room - Tips for Teachers
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Reduce clutter from everything students see and hear - Tips for Teachers
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Share photos of students' work - Tips for Teachers
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Rephrase to amaze - Tips for Teachers
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Stop talking about grades - Tips for Teachers
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Don't give negative managerial feedback - Tips for Teachers
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Use non-verbal gestures for better behaviour management - Tips for Teachers
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Use Post-it notes to find out what they don't understand - Tips for Teachers
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Get your pupils to spell their name backwards - Tips for Teachers
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Use examples, not definitions, when teaching & assessing - Tips for Teachers
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Don’t do written comments - Tips for Teachers
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Ask a question at the end of every lesson that every student should be able to get right
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Review every lesson plan in terms of what the student is thinking about - Tips for Teachers
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Have a robust culture of retrieval - Tips for Teachers
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No feedback, more teaching - Tips for Teachers
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Always check for understanding - Tips for Teachers
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Be super clear about what you want children to learn - Tips for Teachers
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Every teacher should make the teaching of literacy a high priority - Tips for Teachers
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Keep spare mini-whiteboard pen lids - Tips for Teachers
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Plan for error - Tips for Teachers
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Ask students "What was the most useful thing I did today?" - Tips for Teachers
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Encourage students to say "stop!" if they are confused during an explanation - Tips for Teachers
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Use talk cubes to encourage students to contribute - Tips for Teachers
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