Newsletters by Craig Barton


I write not one, but two, free weekly newsletters.
  1. Tips for Teachers newsletter
  2. Eedi newsletter

Tips for Teachers newsletter


Each Monday morning the Tips for Teachers newsletter lands in your inbox with a tip to try out on your classrooms that week. Subscribe (for free) by entering your email in the box above, and check out all the past editions here:

Eedi newsletter


My Eedi newsletter comes out every Tuesday. Typically, this contains longer-form content, focussing on coaching, classroom pedagogy and resources. Subscribe (for free) by entering your email in the box above, and check out all the past editions here:
Coaching
  1. My Coaching Process
  2. Coaching Case Studies #1: Improving the Do Now and explanations
  3. Coaching Case Studies #2: Improving worked examples and check for understanding
  4. Coaching Case Studies #3: Misconceptions and going through tests
  5. Coaching Case Studies #4: Non-examples and room layout
  6. The power of the Hypothesis Model when coaching
  7. The importance of rehearsal when coaching
Pedagogy
  1. Two ideas for improving GCSE revision
  2. The myth of copying things down
  3. Busy tricking during the Do Now
  4. Supercharging Think, Pair, Share
  5. The cost of classroom interruptions
  6. How many of your students are participating?
  7. Participation ratio in lessons: the results are in!
  8. Boosting the participation ratio during our explanations
  9. How prescriptive should a Head of Department be?
  10. Book-to-Board: One of my favourite uses of mini-whiteboards
  11. Pitfalls to avoid when going through answers
  12. Mini-whiteboard + Exam paper = ❤️
  13. 13 ideas to help boost homework completion rates
  14. The perils of Rounding Up students' answers
  15. Helping students listen to each other 
  16. The opportunity cost of digging deeper
  17. 10 things we know about testing
  18. Correcting in green pen does not work
  19. Poor proxies for understanding

Resources
  1. Variation spiders!
  2. GCSE Big 20
  3. The best maths worksheet ever?
  4. Free maths CPD
  5. Back to school: Four things to listen to
  6. Brand-new, free maths resources for every maths topic
  7. Explain the mistake
3-Read Friday
  1. Coaching expectations, consistency and worked examples
  2. Attention, revision mistakes, and seminal studies
  3. Explanations, confidence, and productive struggle
  4. Efficiency, observations, and ChatGTP
  5. Teach like nobody’s watching, 1% better, and angles
  6. Participation ratio, Go-to guides, and success
  7. Time, planning, and mathematical literacy
  8. Problem-solving, self-explanation, and 3 Acts
  9. Maths resources, action bias, and fun lessons
  10. Homework, highlighting, and angles
  11. Pre-testing, quizzes, and if-then statements
  12. Variation Theory, lesson planning, and subject knowledge
  13. Questions, sense, and chatbots
  14. Variation Theory, mobile phones, and CPD
  15. Thinking time, One Note, and group coaching
  16. Improving teaching, QLAs, and product of prime factors
  17. Klaxons, checks for listening, and the first 10 minutes of a lesson
  18. Skills v knowledge, live coaching, and conceptual understanding
  19. Experience, worksheets, and Christmas!