Effective Teaching

Dan interviews Stephanie Howell and Tara Ruckman to discuss their new #1 Amazon best-selling book "Control the Choas". Discover how you can help control your blended classroom by developing student executive skills. Get a copy of the book Get a copy of the book  Control the Chaos: What it takes to create order in the classroom and teach executive functioning skills  on Amazon AU Get...

Discover how to save time as you write your reports and mark tasks with this simple hack   Parkinson's law - work expands to fulfil the time allowed for its completion. We prioritise and get work done by their due dates eg) report writing or mark submissions We can benefit from this by creating our own deadlines etc to get things complete. Simple as doing the task in a shorter time limit than...

I really enjoyed interviewing Jon Bergmann (flipped learning pioneer and author of multiple books including recently "The Mastery Learning Handbook". Here Jon lays out what mastery learning is, how to plan for it, and how to manage it in the classroom. Jon Bergmann Jon Bergmann is one of the pioneers of the Flipped Class Movement. He has coordinated and guided Flipped Learning programs around...

In this interview with Brendan Lee (former Assistant Principal and classroom teacher in both primary school and high school) Dan and Brendan discuss explicit instruction. Brendan explains exactly what explicit instruction is and isn't before we go on to explain when it should be used.   Here are some links Barak Rosenshine’s original Principles of Instruction Rosenshine's Principles in Action...

These 5 ideas will help you stand out from other lessons to classes and get your students engaged in learning right from the beginning. Notes Purple cow classroom.   Lessons are all the same and can get boring… be the different teacher Create a new world  Decorations Dress up Start with the problem and don't provide solutions Use music to set the tone for the lesson (eye of the tige...

Discover 2 simple strategies you can apply to your calendar to save you time and increase your energy levels, enthusiasm and passion for teaching again.

Discover a simple feedback process you can use to get great results from your students, but also that energizes you as a teacher.

Learn how to enjoy life after work by enabling your brain to be free of the worries and thoughts of school life. Use these 3 steps to switch your brain off from work. You can get a free copy of the book Work Less, Teach More at https://www.teacherspd.net/freewltm

It's time to reduce your meetings and save yourself some time. If you are a school leader, let's stop having regular recurring meetings just because. Reduce your workload further by getting s copy of my book at teacherspd.net     Notes Delete all your meetings all and email the organiser to ask: What is your role and contribution to the meeting? You won't be attending but will send someo...

Discover the keys to improving your students' motivation levels in your classroom. There are plenty of great tips in this episode to help get students interested and motivated to learn. Join the Effective Teaching Series

Learn how to help your students analyse, evaluate and create as I look at the top of Bloom's taxonomy.   Register for the Free Effective Teacher Series here

The bottom of Bloom's pyramid is often neglected and I want to give you some tips to help students to remember, understand and apply content. The basis from which, higher order thinking can happen.   Register for the effective teaching series

There is a culture in teaching, which promotes the concept of being "busy". In the wider culture, it is #hustle and it is creating workaholics. It's time for us to be more counter-cultural and focus on effectiveness instead of busyness. Register for the 3 part video series at https://www.teacherspd.net/etseries

Feedback can take a lot of time, but this simple 3 step method is simple, fast, and effective.

Flipped learning can save you time, improve your differentiation and a whole lot more. Listen to this episode where I talk about the benefits of flipping your classroom and how to deal with students who don't do their homework. Free 10-Step guide to help you flip your first lesson at https://www.teacherspd.net/10stepflip

Research tells us that the teacher's voice dominates discussion in the classroom and boredom kills learning. Let's look at 4 things you can do instead of giving presentations and lectures to your students.

Why I encourage every teacher who wants to reduce their workload to schedule their time.

This episode contrasts a working culture with one of learning in a school classroom. There are plenty of tips to help a teacher create a more learning-centred classroom.     Grab a copy of my book  Work Less, Teach More

Learn how to use cognitive load effectively in your classroom. How to reduce the load in some areas and empower your students' cognitive load in others.

Discover the similarities and differences between inquiry-based learning and project-based learning. Which one should you use for your subject and which one is best for student learning?

Discover how to be an effective teacher by ensuring you have these 6 characteristics. Effective teaching results in long-lasting, high-impact teachers. Get your free copy of the physical book Work Less, Teach More: How to be an effective teacher and live a life you love. By clicking here

Discover how collaborative tasks can be used to reduce students' cognitive load and deepen their learning. As we continue to look at how students learn and applying this in our classroom this episode brings together cognitive load theory and collaborative tasks.   How to create collaborative tasks to maximise the advantage on cognitive load: complex enough to justify the collaborative approac...

Do you want to work less and be an effective teacher? Then this video and this book are for you. Discover how you can reduce your workload while still being an effective teacher in the classroom. Having your own life does not have to compromise that of your students. In this episode, I go through my book Work Less, Teach More: How to be an effective teacher and live a life you love.  This boo...

Most teachers know what Bloom's taxonomy is and use it in a very basic way. This episode takes a closer look and identifies how to leverage this taxonomy and improve student learning.

Imagery is such a great way to help our students learn and remember content. Whether it be memorising a set of facts or connecting concepts. Imagery is what our brains are wired for.