Teach smarter : efficient and effective strategies for early career teachers / Adam Riches.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Riches, Adam (Educator), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

First year teachers.

Teachers--Workload.

Teachers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (133 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

"As a teacher, the more efficient you are, the less stressful work becomes, and the more effective you are, the more you can focus on teaching those in front of you. Teach Smarter is an essential guide that helps early career teachers reduce their unnecessary workload by offering practical classroom strategies that can save you, and those you work with, time. With a focus on keeping teaching simple and ensuring everything has a meaningful purpose, this book offers guidance on reducing workload through careful reflection and evaluation of your teaching practice. Offering ways to adjust your pedagogy and streamline your approaches in the classroom, Teach Smarter gives you more time to focus on what is important: helping your students progress. Questioning what it means to 'teach smart,' the chapters explore topics including: Planning Feedback Classroom space Expectations Feedback Reflecting on your teaching and managing stress Written by an experienced classroom teacher, coach and mentor, this book is essential reading for trainee teachers, NQT and RQTs"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Endorsements

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of contents

Introduction

Nobody said it was easy…

Not all habits are bad habits

Honest advice

Workload… and books?

1 What does it mean to teach smart?

Can I teach smart?

How are we at this point?

The answer to everything

Where's the research?

What does it mean to be reflective?

2 Smart theory (and wider ideas)

John Sweller - Cognitive Load Theory

How will this help?

Apply the concepts right

Barak Rosenshine - ten principles of instruction

Not just good teaching

Don't use them all at once

Robert Bjork - desirable difficulty

Applying theory in a smart way

Wider ideas

What is cultural capital and where does it come from?

Experiences

Language

Shared efficacy

3 Classroom space

Classroom layout

The desks

The pupils

The displays

Desk or no desk?

Clutter

Why is it so important to consider your space?

Circulating

Tracking, not watching

Marking

Reality

4 Planning

What to plan

Talking

Modelling

Being responsive - the art of winging it

Sharing the load

5 Expectations

Just behaviour?

Less can be more

Clarity is key

Engagement

Get the accessibility right

Compliance or engagement?

Consistency

Praise

Linguistic economy

Be specific with praise

Parents

Teaching parents to be (better) teachers

Expectations of teachers

Don't lose touch with reality

6 Feedback

Making the distinction between marking and feedback

Misconceptions

Errors

Monitoring tasks

Live feedback

Whole-class feedback

Peer feedback

7 Questioning

Subject knowledge

Distribution

Commonality of language

Using the right type of question

Closed questions

Open questions

Socratic questions.

Hinge questions

Leading questions

Probing questions

Rhetorical questions

Multiple choice questions (MCQs)

Calling for response

Set expectations around questioning

8 Reflecting

Plan/prepare/implement/reflect/repeat

Keep on keeping on

Read up

Manage stress

Final words

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781003016236

1003016235

9781000054415

1000054411

OCLC:

1138997263