Craig Barton interviews guests from the wonderful world of education about their approaches to teaching, educational research and more. All show notes, resources and videos here: https://www.mrbartonmaths.com/blog/
Teacher, author and my arch-rival podcaster, Ollie Lovell, joins me from the land Down Under in the second of our monthly chats. We each share three things we have been thinking about from the world of education recently. In this episode, we discuss reasons students don't understand things, behaviour, copying things down, and more! For show notes, videos and links please visit this page: mrbartonmaths.com/blog/tools-and-tips-for-teachers-2
Time-stamps:
- Three reasons students don’t know the answer (06:06)
- Three reflections on behaviour in schools (19:22)
- Develop competing hypotheses when observing teaching and learning (37:11)
- Further thoughts on the Myth of Copying Things Down (47:19)
- Rethinking To-Do Lists (1:06:13)
- End the day on a positive (1:16:24)
Episode details
Ollie Lovell is a maths and sceince teacher from Australia, an author, and my longtime, bitter podcasting rival. We have decided to get together once a month to share three things we have each learned and get the other’s take on it.
This episode we discussed the following 6 ideas:
- Three reasons students don’t know the answer
- Three reflections on behaviour in schools
- Develop competing hypotheses when observing teaching and learning
- Further thoughts on the Myth of Copying Things Down
- Rethinking To-Do lists
- End the day on a positive
Time-stamps
- Three reasons students don’t know the answer (06:06)
- Three reflections on behaviour in schools (19:22)
- Develop competing hypotheses when observing teaching and learning (37:11)
- Further thoughts on the Myth of Copying Things Down (47:19)
- Rethinking To-Do lists (1:06:13)
- End the day on a positive (1:16:24)
Videos
You can find over 200 videos on all aspects of teaching and learning indexed here: tipsforteachers.co.uk
Ollie’s stuff
- On Twitter, Ollie is @ollie_lovell
- Ollie’s website is ollielovell.com
- You can check-out Ollie’s podcast, The Education Research Reading Room here
- Ollie’s first book, Cognitive Load Theory in Action, is available from Amazon
- Ollie’s second book, Tools for Teachers, is available from Amazon
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