Tips for Teachers: 400+ ideas to improve your teaching

On each episode of the Tips for Teachers podcast Craig Barton invites his guest to share five tips they think teachers should know about. Guests so far have included education heavyweights such as Dylan Wiliam, Daisy Christodoulou and Tom Sherrington, as well as talented teachers who are not established names but have so much wisdom to share. The tips cover all aspects of teaching, from planning lessons to well-being, calling in at routines, modelling and retrieval practice along the way. This book is Craig’s attempt to weave hundreds of tips into a coherent narrative, and present them in such a way that you can use them the very next time you step inside a classroom. You will find twenty-one ideas to improve your Low-Stakes Quizzes, twenty-one ideas to enhance mini-whiteboard use, thirteen ideas to make Silent Teacher effective, eight ideas to help you observe student work with a purpose, and lots, lots more. Whatever your level of experience, subject or phase, there are plenty of ideas inside to help take your teaching to the next level.

Contents

Chapter 1: How to use this book Chapter 2: Habits and routines Chapter 3: The means of participation Chapter 4: Checking for understanding Chapter 5: Responsive teaching Chapter 6: Planning Chapter 7: Prior knowledge Chapter 8: Explanations, modelling and worked examples Chapter 9: Student practice Chapter 10: Memory and retrieval

Author Biography

Craig Barton loves teaching, doing, speaking and thinking about mathematics. He taught maths in secondary schools for 15 years, and was TES Maths Adviser for 10 years. He is now the Head of Education at Eedi. Craig is the author ofthe best-selling books How I Wish I’d Taught Maths and Reflect, Expect, Check, Explain, the host of the Mr Barton Maths podcast and the Tips for Teachers podcast, and the creator of far too many websites, including mrbartonmaths.com, tipsforteachers.co.uk, diagnosticquestions.com, variationtheory.com, and ssddproblems.com. In 2020 he was appointed as Visiting Fellow at the Mathematics Education Centre at the University of Loughborough. Craig has been lucky enough to teach maths and work with teachers all over the world. His proudest achievements are convincing Kate to marry him, and being the father to our wonderful boys, Isaac and Jacob.

Check out Craig Barton’s other titles: Reflect, Expect, Check, Explain and  How I Wish I’d Taught Maths.

Follow Craig’s Youtube channel HERE.