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Messy markbooks: monitoring participation in (and across) lessons

Jan 20, 2024 | Category: Featured

Since taking the plunge with mini-whiteboards (see this post) over the past few years my ability to know whether students are paying attention, thinking and practising has dramatically increased. Beca...

#Doug Lemov #mini whiteboards #Claire Woozley

Top Gun for Teachers

Jun 01, 2016 | Category: training

On March 3, 1969 the United States Navy established an elite school for the top one percent of its pilots. Its purpose was to teach the lost art of aerial combat and to insure that the handful of men...

#Doug Lemov #teacher training #K Anders Ericsson

What I learned in my visit to King Solomon Academy Part 2 - The Lemov lecture

Sep 12, 2014 | Category: Featured

When I reported my observations about King Solomon Academy, a number of commentators pointed out the similarities to some of the Charter Schools in the US. Any similarity is the Charter model, particu...

#Teach First #Doug Lemov #KIPP #Policy Exchange #King Solomon Academy #Zenaida Tan

Listen up: Improving the quality of classroom discussion

Jun 29, 2014 | Category: learning

We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less.Diogenes Pupils are asked to discuss stuff in class all the time. As, from time to time, are teachers. Think back to...

#Robin Alexander #Doug Lemov #discussion #listening

How can we make classroom observation more effective?

Jan 14, 2014 | Category: learning

If the belief that it's possible for untrained observers to pitch up in lessons and grade their effectiveness is comparable to a belief in witchcraft, (and Professor Robert Coe's research confirms tha...

#Doug Lemov #lesson observation #Robert Coe

Coming soon... the secret of literacy revealed

Jan 10, 2014 | Category: Featured

This isn't really a post, more a shameless piece of self-promotion. I would normally cringe at the idea of publicly bathing in the warm glow of congratulations but in this case it feels exciting enoug...

#Doug Lemov #The Secret of Literacy

The times they are a changin': how can we improve the PGCE?

Oct 27, 2013 | Category: Featured

Back in the dim and distant mists of time when I embarked on my Post-graduate Certificate in Education, there was no other way to train as a teacher. Much of my training was interesting and I largely...

#Teach First #Joe Kirby #Doug Lemov #PCK #PGCE #School Direct

The art of beautifully crafted sentences

Oct 17, 2013 | Category: English

I came across this post on Doug Lemov's blog earlier today and instantly decided to rewrite my Year 8 lesson to make use of the ideas within.The idea is, like all good ideas, a very simple one: that p...

#Slow Writing #Doug Lemov

A model lesson? Part 1: routines vs gimmicks

Sep 08, 2013 | Category: leadership

It's been a busy week this week. What with starting at a new school, getting up before 5 to drive two hours on Monday morning, living an Alan Partridge-esque existence in a particularly horrific Trave...

#Dylan Wiliam #questioning #Pose Pause Pounce Bounce #Kris Boulton #Doug Lemov #bell work #routines

Teaching sequence for developing independence Stage 4: Practise

Jul 04, 2013 | Category: Featured

What does practice make? Well, it turns out that my mum was wrong. Doug Lemov points out in Practice Perfect that practice doesn't make perfect, practice makes permanent. What we practise we get good...

#deliberate practice #Ron Berger #Flow #Grit #Doug Lemov