Mike Gershon’s Free Resources
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Welcome to my Free Resources for Teachers! 👋
Here you’ll find a collection of my teaching and learning resources, fully edited, redesigned and renovated for teaching today.
Over the years, these resources, along with a few others, have been used by teachers all over the world, via my site and TES.com
They’ve always been free and they’ll always stay free.
When I first started making resources, it was to help myself plan more quickly and more easily, and to help out the great group of teachers I was training with at UCL Institute of Education.
I’ve done a lot in education since then, and today you can download the latest versions of my resources to support you in your career 😁.
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Strategies, Tools and Techniques to Make Life Easier for Busy Teachers
Discover Snapshots of Every Resource
Giving you a taster of what they contain, who they’re aimed at, and, most importantly, how they can help you with your planning and teaching.
Most of the resources are suitable for primary and secondary, with a few exceptions.
You can also get FREE insights, ideas and strategies at my Knowledge Base.
You’ll find 400+ guides, articles and blogs there, covering ten key areas of teaching and learning.
(Feedback, Questioning, Growth Mindsets, Positive Behaviour Management, EAL, Differentiation & Adaptive Teaching, Talk, Discussion & Oracy, Bloom’s Taxonomy, AFL, and Training to Teach … in case you’re wondering.)
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Practical Strategies, Techniques and Activities You Can Use Right Now in Your Teaching
100+ Starters to Simplify Your Lesson Planning
Viewed and Downloaded 885,000+ Times by Teachers Around the World
- 🎯 Starter activities you can use in primary and secondary classrooms.
- 🎯 Easy to adapt for use across the curriculum.
- 🎯 Speed up your planning and widen your repertoire.
120+ Plenary Activities for Your Classroom
Viewed and Downloaded 550,000+ Times by Teachers Around the World
- 🎯 Plenary activities you can use at the end of your lessons.
- 🎯 Suitable for primary and secondary classrooms.
- 🎯 Easy to adapt and modify for your learners.
168 Zero-Planning Plenaries To Take the Pain Out of Lesson Preparation
Viewed and Downloaded 160,000+ Times by Teachers Around the World
- 🎯 No planning required – just jump in and choose a plenary.
- 🎯 Reflective questions and tasks for primary and secondary.
- 🎯 Help learners review and revisit the lesson content.
Up Your AFL Game with 70 Strategies, Activities and Techniques for You and Your Learners
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- 🎯 Tried-and-tested strategies for use across the curriculum.
- 🎯 Suitable for primary and secondary.
- 🎯 Easy to weave into your planning and teaching.
Create Memorable Discussion Opportunities in Any Lesson
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- 🎯 Key discussion strategies explained in simple, practical language.
- 🎯 Suitable for primary and secondary.
- 🎯 Create structured oracy interventions in your classroom today.
Support Your EAL Learners Whatever Their Level of English Language Development
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- 🎯 Build your confidence and your skillset.
- 🎯 Dozens of strategies to support EAL learners in primary and secondary classrooms.
- 🎯 Makes life easier for you and your EAL learners.
Take a Fresh Look at Differentiation and Adaptive Teaching
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- 🎯 Practical, low-planning techniques for differentiation and adaptive teaching.
- 🎯 Suitable for primary and secondary.
- 🎯 New and familiar strategies you can deploy in your teaching.
Stretch and Challenge Every Learner in Your Classroom, Including the More-Able
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- 🎯 Easily increase the level of challenge for groups, individuals or the whole class.
- 🎯 Suitable for primary and secondary.
- 🎯 Discover new ways to stretch and challenge your more-able learners.
Leverage the Power of the World’s Most Influential Teaching Framework
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- 🎯 Explore the practical power and huge scope of Bloom’s Taxonomy.
- 🎯 90 keywords, covering all six levels, with 450 exemplar tasks and questions.
- 🎯 Suitable for primary and secondary.
Give Your Learners a Break and Have Some Fun
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- 🎯 Thirty movement breaks you can use in your classroom.
- 🎯 Suitable for primary and Key Stage Three.
- 🎯 Stimulate learners’ minds, get them moving and help regulate their behaviour.
Put Creative Thinking At the Heart of Your Lessons
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- 🎯 168 creative questions to get you and your learners thinking differently.
- 🎯 Suitable for primary and secondary.
- 🎯 Pick out questions you like, or select at random using the special contents page.
Get Your Learners Thinking About Life, The Universe and Everything in Between
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- 🎯 168 philosophical questions that challenge learners to analyse, critique and reflect.
- 🎯 Suitable for secondary.
- 🎯 Browse through for questions that pique your interest or use the contents page to choose at random.
Train Your Focus on Moral Reasoning and Ethical Dilemmas
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- 🎯 168 ethical questions focussing on morality, moral reasoning, and issues of right and wrong.
- 🎯 Suitable for secondary.
- 🎯 Set up so you can choose questions at random, or search through for ones you like.
Discuss, Debate and Interrogate the Nature of Politics, Power and Freedom
Viewed and Downloaded 6,000+ Times by Teachers Around the World
- 🎯 168 political philosophy questions that put the onus on learners to think deeply.
- 🎯 Suitable for secondary.
- 🎯 Use the contents page to randomly select challenging questions or browse through at your leisure.
Help Your Learners to Write Better Essays
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- 🎯 Techniques and activities you can use to improve your learners’ essay writing skills.
- 🎯 Suitable for secondary.
- 🎯 Refresh your approach to teaching essay writing and discover new strategies to use with your learners.
