Katy Mills is the Team Leader for English at Westbourne Academy in Ipswich (UK). She recently shared some video that she shot from her classroom. Mostly, she was looking for feedback, but in watching it I found myself really impressed, so I asked Katy if she’d be willing to share some examples of her teaching. …
Had the opportunity to talk teaching with an amazing group of math, science and technology teachers from my own region in the New York State Master Teacher Program on Saturday. This post is specifically a follow-up to share two more examples of Cold Call, one of the techniques we discussed during the session, but the clips…
Cold Call is a technique that instantly brings accountability to the classroom. That’s pretty obvious. But at its best it brings a distinctly positive form of accountability. We’ve been focusing on this idea in our trainings–emphasizing that moments of accountability are often ideal for warmth and positivity. Put another way, the Cold Call has already…
Batch Process is technique #44 in TLaC 2.0. The idea is that rather than responding to or mediating every student comment during discussion, it can be beneficial to let students talk several times in a row, directly to one another, before you step in to guide or shape. This idea is sometimes referred to as playing…
On Friday I blogged about a training session run by Heather Pedersen of Virginia’s ODP soccer program. Today I want to post another couple of clips from her training session that show things I thought were really useful. This first clip shows four of Heather’s stoppages during small-sided and full-sided games. Heather Pederson.Stoppages.Short from Uncommon…