In Teach Like A Champion 3.0. Doug Lemov shares insights from Denarius Frazier’s classroom. During this scene, Denarius is circulating purposefully while the students complete some independent work. During this circulation Denarius notices a common error which prompts home to reteach by studying the error. He calmly takes a pupils…

Retrieval Practice Retrieval Practice is becoming deeply embedded in the lexicon of teaching and is beginning to be a term that we share with our students. In fact, i've been sharing it with my own students for quite some time now. Explaining to them why we use it and how to use…

Mini-whiteboards are quickly becoming a staple of my classroom practice. I was recently observed and my feedback noted that some questions I asked would really suit a mini-whiteboard, why? because you can make the thinking of 25–30 students visible at one time. Instead of hearing…

This session I have been working with Carmel Bones as part of the Osiris Teaching Intervention programme. If you haven’t worked with Carmel before I would highly recommend you get in touch as she is excellent. Carmel is full of knowledge, experience, evidence and she is full to the brim…

Tom Sherrington recently celebrated ten years of blogging with Emma Turner on their brilliant podcast Mind The Gap. Tom’s blog has inspired so much of the work that I do and I regularly share it with colleagues. It was fascinating to hear him talk about it, how he got into…

I’ve not long finished reading Harry Fletcher-Wood’s book ‘Responsive Teaching’ and it has contributed hugely to my thinking around my classroom practice. Over the past few years I’ve been part of a programme that investigated Dylan Wiliam’s five areas of formative assessment and I felt I had a decent grasp…

Towards the end of my first workshop with Uncommon Schools they mentioned a new workshop they had just finished designing focussing on checking for understanding, I immediately booked onto it. This time round the presenters were Erica Woolway (one of the co-authors of ‘Reading Reconsidered’) and Joaquin Hernandez, who again…

A few weeks ago I attended an Uncommon Schools webinar for remote instruction — 101: Principles of Remote Instruction. I was motivated to attend one after reading Teaching in the Online Classroom and this brilliant summary from Tom Sherrington. Uncommon Schools are the organisation behind Teach Like a Champion, the…

Making our online classrooms at least feel like our physical classrooms is an area of practice that i’m keen to pursue with our remote teaching. …