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Flipped Learning – How Do You Get it to Actually Work?

Flipped learning is one of those things that are fantastic in theory, but there are stories about how it just doesn’t work; at least, not for my students.

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Why Your Students are Not “Attention-Seekers”.

It’s tempting to use your usual behaviour management techniques, but this can actually reinforce attention-seeking behaviour and turn it into a real problem.

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School Reports Have Changed – And it Will Have Consequences.

They often need to be done more frequently and they are becoming more structured; there are more and more rules about what teachers can and cannot say.

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Closer and Quieter – How To Manage Attention-Seeking Behaviour.

The students who like to get on your nerves, who seem to thrive on getting a rise out of you. How do you manage these students?

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The Power of Praise: How to Properly Praise your Students.

Praise has enormous power to reinforce a mindset. Whether a student receives praise will impact how they think about themselves and their place in the world.

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The Best Strategy for Relief Teachers who Struggle with Names.

With the number of names that you need to remember (and how little time you have to learn them), you need a solid strategy in place to help you.

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6 High-Impact Teaching Strategies that take 30 Seconds or Less.

These strategies will take 30 seconds either in your lesson or after. They may just be the best 30 seconds you can spend to support your students.

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1.5 Differentiate teaching to meet the specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities.

While many interpret this as differentiating learning for those who are working below their year level or who have learning difficulties, this is not the case.

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1.2 Understand how students learn.

The science of learning is always developing. If you’ve been in a school for a while you will know there is always something new that educators are focusing on.

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1.1 Physical, social and intellectual development and characteristics of students.

It is important for educators to understand how the brain grows and changes so that they can work with these changes to help young people develop