Mike’s Blog
Strategies, Ideas and Insights for Teachers and Leaders
Category: Training to Teach
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Communicating – Part 1
This blog is Part 1 of 3. Here’s a link to Part 2. And here’s a link to Part 3. Through these three blogs, we’re going to think about communication…
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Sustaining Pace and Challenge – Part 4
This blog is Part 4 of 4. You can access the other parts here: Five Simple Ways to Sustain Pace As promised in Part 3, here we have five techniques…
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Sustaining Pace and Challenge – Part 3
This blog is Part 3 of 4. You can access the other parts here: Bloom’s Taxonomy We move now to consider an exceptionally valuable tool all teachers can call on…
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Sustaining Pace and Challenge – Part 2
This blog is Part 2 of 4. You can access the other parts here: Using Questioning to Challenge All Learners We now turn to look at questioning in a little…
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Sustaining Pace and Challenge – Part 1
This blog is Part 1 of 4. You can access the other parts here: In Part 1, I’ll focus on differentiation. In Part 2, how to use questioning to stretch…
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Unpicking the Lesson – Part 1
This blog is Part 1 of 3. Here’s a link to Part 2. And here’s a link to Part 3. Across the three blogs, I’m going to focus on unpicking…
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Unpicking the Lesson – 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 the previous blog, we thought in big picture terms…
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Unpicking the Lesson – Part 3
This blog is Part 3 of 3. Here’s a link to Part 1. And here’s a link to Part 2. In the previous blogs, we thought about lesson structure, the…
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Facilitation vs Instruction – Part 1
This blog is Part 1 of 3. Here’s a link to Part 2. And here’s a link to Part 3. We’re going to look at a key dichotomy that sits…
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Facilitation vs Instruction – 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, I introduced the idea of facilitation and…