Mike’s Blog
Strategies, Ideas and Insights for Teachers and Leaders
Category: Training to Teach
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Creating the Environment for Progress – Part 4
This blog is Part 4 of 4. You can access the other parts here: Effective Feedback We turn now to feedback. If marking is the process, feedback is the content.…
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Creating the Environment for Progress – Part 3
This blog is Part 3 of 4. You can access the other parts here: Effective Marking Part 2 was, necessarily, reflective in nature. Norms and values, while important, involve us…
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Creating the Environment for Progress – Part 2
This blog is Part 2 of 4. You can access the other parts here: Establishing Norms We move now to think about the norms of your classroom. Norms are unwritten…
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Creating the Environment for Progress – Part 1
This blog is Part 1 of 4. You can access the other parts here: Across the four blogs, I’m going to look at a range of things you can do,…
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Learning from Yourself, Learning from Others – Part 4
This blog is Part 4 of 4. You can access the other parts here: Making Observations Effective Part 2 (When you are observing) When it comes to observations, the other…
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Learning from Yourself, Learning from Others – Part 3
This blog is Part 3 of 4. You can access the other parts here: Making Observations Effective Part 1 (When you are being observed) During your training, you will be…
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Learning from Yourself, Learning from Others – Part 2
This blog is Part 2 of 4. You can access the other parts here: Effective Self-Reflection Within everything we have said so far, there has been an implicit recognition that…
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Learning from Yourself, Learning from Others – Part 1
This blog is Part 1 of 4. You can access the other parts here: To begin, I want to think about mistakes and how we can learn from them. Then,…
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Communicating – Part 3
This blog is Part 3 of 3. Here’s a link to Part 1. And here’s a link to Part 2. We began by thinking about the essentials of effective communication.…
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Communicating – Part 2
This blog is Part 2 of 3. Here’s a link to Part 1. And here’s a link to Part 3. In Part 1, we laid the groundwork, emphasising the essentials…