Next week Erica Woolway, Sadie McCleary and I will be leading the first session in a remote workshop on teaching for medical educators. It’s our second time offering the workshop and we’ve found it really fun and fascinating to talk about how Wait Time and Everybody Writes and Cold Call can apply to–and accelerate learning…
Last week I posted a really lovely video of Beth Peakman’s Cold Call and Wait Time at Rivers Primary Academy in Walsall, England. Today I get to share another video from the same school. This one is of Katie Jukes’ year two maths lesson. It shows how Katie builds contagious enthusiasm for learning. Katie…
The TLAC team will be in London April 20 and 21 for a two-day workshop on Engaging Academics. I thought I’d tell you a bit about what we’ll be working on those days. First the content: We’ll take a deep dive into a series of key techniques focused around the skill of questioning and how it…
Just watching some video this morning a recent lesson of Spencer Davis’ at University Prep in the Bronx. I’ve posted about Spencer’s teaching recently (and will post about again soon). He’s a master of subtly and lovingly building academic culture with his sixth graders. You can see plenty of that in this recent post…
Been thinking a lot lately about how much what a teacher does before a Cold Call shapes its success. Watch for example how in this clip BreOnna Tindall has her students write a response to a key question, then Turn and Talk to discuss their thoughts. When she Cold Calls the first student to share–he’s…