Tips for Teachers

Former English teacher and now best-selling author, Alex Quigley, joins us on the Tips for Teacher podcast to share his 5 tips: 1. Ask students to make a pre-topic mind map (02:55) 2. Focus on developing keystone vocabulary (17:58) 3. Try using a collage collection to stimulate ideas (32:24) 4. Play "Just a minute!" (44:32) 5. Support your students using sentence expanding (1:00:30) Access the show notes and audio transcription of the episode, plus a load more audio and video tips here: tipsforteachers.co.uk

Teacher and author David Goodwin, joins us on the Tips for Teacher podcast to share his 5 tips: 1. Provide opportunities for students to read in lessons (04:23) 2. Develop vocabulary (16:45) 3. Rebrand homework as practice (25:08) 4. How to improve students' ability to write (33:33) 5. How to make retrieval practice work (45:53) Access the show notes and audio transcription of the episode, plus a load more audio and video tips here: tipsforteachers.co.uk

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Five tips to improve the use of Silent Teacher in the classroom. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N7JuJ3Bf3Q Tips for Teachers book: https://amzn.to/3EEa2Sm Tips for teachers CPD: https://tipsforteachers.co.uk/cpd/ Tips for Teachers newsletter: https://tipsforteachers.co.uk/newsletter/

Five tips to improve checking for understanding in the classroom. Video: https://youtu.be/Zt9WlMzCzWQ Tips for Teachers book: https://amzn.to/3EEa2Sm Tips for teachers CPD: https://tipsforteachers.co.uk/cpd/ Tips for Teachers newsletter: https://tipsforteachers.co.uk/newsletter/