It’s always better to know
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 that I'm always teaching students I don't know and so, instead of watching a slick performance with students who have been thoroughly trained in the routines of a functional classroom, teachers get to see me work to establish expectations and build relationships in real time. Recently, I taught a lesson to a Year 10 class in which I was modelling how to [...]