Newsletters by Craig Barton
I write not one, but two, free weekly newsletters.
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:
- #1: Make use of both sides of a mini-whiteboard
- #2: Ban the word “easy”
- #3: Try students standing during explanations
- #4: Check students have heard you instructions
- #5: Cold Call a student twice in a lesson
- #6: How to choose which pair of students to call upon
- #7: Include upcoming prerequisite knowledge in homeworks
- #8: Ask pupils “what was the most useful thing I did today?”
- #9: How to respond to “I don’t know”
- #10: Lower the content demand initially when introducing a new routine
- #11: Getting even more out of Diagnostic questions
- #12: Introducing Call and Response
- #13: Two questions to write when planning a lesson
- #14: The four steps of Responsive teaching
- #15: Coaching: the hypothesis and critical evidence combo
- #16: The importance of Wait time 1
- #17: The importance of Wait time 2
- #18: What is the optimal group size?
- #19: Ask me two questions
- #20: Improving revision lessons
- #21: Two tips to improve whole-class feedback
- #22: Ask students to respond in sentences
- #23: The power of waiting for Golden Silence
- #24: Reducing the tactical delay with voting cards
- #25: Ask students to Copy worked examples later in the lesson
- #26: Use mini-whiteboard when going through tests
- #27: What to say to high-achieving students if they are bored
- #28: Model in real-time
- #29: Three questions to ask during a departmental meeting
- #30: Add confidence scores to mini-whiteboards
- #31: Three videos, podcasts, tips and blogs posts to check out
- #32: “Head down, fist on head” for answering diagnostic questions
- #33: Carry a mini-whiteboard with you when circulating
- #34: Explain, Frame, Reframe, Rehearse when doing Call and Respond
- #35:
Beware of saying "If you got the question wrong, make sure
you have corrected it"
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
- My Coaching Process
- Coaching Case Studies #1: Improving the Do Now and explanations
- Coaching Case Studies #2: Improving worked examples and check for understanding
- Coaching Case Studies #3: Misconceptions and going through tests
- Coaching Case Studies #4: Non-examples and room layout
- The power of the Hypothesis Model when coaching
Pedagogy
- Two ideas for improving GCSE revision
- The myth of copying things down
- Busy tricking during the Do Now
- Supercharging Think, Pair, Share
- The cost of classroom interruptions
- How many of your students are participating?
- Participation ratio in lessons: the results are in!
- Boosting the participation ratio during our explanations
- How prescriptive should a Head of Department be?
- Book-to-Board: One of my favourite uses of mini-whiteboards
- Pitfalls to avoid when going through answers
- Mini-whiteboard + Exam paper = ❤️❤️❤️
- 13
ideas to help boost homework completion rates 🚀🚀🚀
Resources
- Variation spiders!
- GCSE Big 20
- The best maths worksheet ever?
- Free maths CPD
- Back to school: Four things to listen to
- Brand-new, free maths resources for every maths topic
3-Read Friday
- Coaching expectations, consistency and worked examples
- Attention, revision mistakes, and seminal studies
- Explanations, confidence, and productive struggle
- Efficiency, observations, and ChatGTP
- Teach like nobody’s watching, 1% better, and angles
- Participation ratio, Go-to guides, and success
- Time, planning, and mathematical literacy
- Problem-solving, self-explanation, and 3 Acts
- Maths resources, action bias, and fun lessons
- Homework, highlighting, and angles
- Pre-testing, quizzes, and if-then statements
- Variation Theory, lesson planning,
and subject knowledge
- Questions,
sense, and chatbots