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The Learning Spy is alive and well on Substack

Feb 03, 2026 | Category: Featured

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How do I know all students have made sense of what has been taught?

Mar 24, 2025 | Category: Featured

This post was published first on Substack. Please consider subscribing if you haven't already.In Attention, Meaning & Mastery I wrote that all teachers need to answer four questions every lesson: H...

How do I know all students are paying attention?

Mar 22, 2025 | Category: Featured

This post is also on Substack. As a reminder, I'm planning to stop posting here in the short to medium term so I'd be really grateful if you could subscribe over there. Thanks, David In Attention, Mea...

How can we teach so that all students experience success?

Mar 17, 2025 | Category: Featured

A reminder that I'm shifting my output over to Substack, so it would be wonderful if you could subscribe over there. I've been reworking some older posts on this blog and publishing them there so you...

Attention, meaning and mastery: The questions every teacher needs to answer every lesson

Mar 13, 2025 | Category: Featured

After a loooong hiatus from blogging I've decided to give substack a try. You can subscribe here.For the next few blogs I'll also post here on the Learning Spy site but, depending on how things go, I'...

It's always better to know

Mar 12, 2025 | Category: Featured

Over the last few years I've made a habit of teaching demonstration lessons in the schools I work with in order to make it clearer how to teach effectively. One of the things that makes this useful is...

#hinge point questions #check for understanding #cold call

Using hinge point questions in English

Nov 03, 2024 | Category: assessment

This post is an extract from Bringing the English Curriculum to Life. In order to teach responsively, teachers need to be able to quickly identify misconceptions and check students’ understanding.A h...

#multiple choice questions #mini whiteboards #hinge point questions

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The Learning Spy is alive and well on Substack

How do I know all students have made sense of what has been taught?

How do I know all students are paying attention?

How can we teach so that all students experience success?

Attention, meaning and mastery: The questions every teacher needs to answer every lesson

It's always better to know

Using hinge point questions in English

How should we view the performance of the most disadvantaged students?

The purpose of a system is what it does

Why bother with 'turn & talk'?

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