If you’re a new teacher, your first priority should be to develop your subject knowledge - to give you authority, save time for everything else, and increase your wellbeing and longevity.
Prioritise subject knowledge as an ECT (Early Career Teacher)
Curriculum Design: Explicitly map out what you want to teach
Discover how explicitly writing out the key learning points of your curriculum can transform your teaching and assessment, improve achievement, and close the disadvantage gap.
Your Key Words List / Glossary Probably Stinks. Design A Better One.
The key words list you handed out to your students is probably rubbish. Here's how to design a better one - by first engaging in some solid thinking around your curriculum.
Assessment Planning – Improving Extended Writing
Long-answer, 'essay' questions. How do you get students really good at them? There's a lot of prior work needed. Here's what to do.
Musings On Teacher Authority
There are two kinds of authority you need to have. The first is the one granted to you by your job role. The other (longer-lasting one) is the one you develop as an expert. Learn more about the two here.
Developing Long Term Memory By Rehearsal
Retaining anything in long-term memory requires repetition and rehearsal. Here are three proven techniques you can build into lessons to aid long-term memory.
Curriculum Intent, Implementation, Impact SIMPLIFIED
With all of this talk of everything "curriculum" floating around, you might get confused on the different things that it involves, so I've produced a simple diagram to show you and how it all fits together.
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