Welcome to the Training to Teach Knowledge Base

Whether you’re waiting to start your training, just beginning, or part way through, this page is for you.

I’ve pulled together over forty blogs, giving you a step-by-step introduction to effective teaching.

Across the Training to Teach Knowledge Base, you’ll find articles covering everything you need to know as a beginning teacher.

They’ll help you to reflect, to think critically about your experiences, and to excel in your training.

Take advantage of my fifteen years’ of expertise and use it to help you develop into the teacher you want to be.

You’ll find guidance on behaviour management, marking, feedback, planning lessons, stretching and challenging all learners, differentiation, questioning, effective communication and more besides.

At the end of each section, I’ve included some bonuses for you.

Questions and activities you can use to further your development.

Plus, in section eight, Learning from Yourself, Learning from Others, you’ll find detailed guidance on how to make the most of observations.

Those when you’re the one being observed.

And those when you’re observing someone else.

Of course, all my other Knowledge Bases will give you plenty of additional ideas, strategies and techniques.

Don’t forget to check those out once you’ve been through this one.

And feel free to come and join me on my exclusive CPD platform, Mike Gershon’s Effective Teaching and Learning, any time you like. It’ll be a pleasure to have you as part of the membership.

All that’s left is for me to wish you good luck in your training.

I’m sure it won’t be long before you find yourself becoming the teacher you want to be.

Navigate the Training to Teach Knowledge Base

What is teaching all about?

Becoming a Teacher

Unpicking the Lesson