3-Read Friday #25

Stepping away from the speaker, messy markbooks, and GCSE Maths revision

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Here are three blog posts that I found interesting this week.

1. Step away from the speaker by Adam Boxer

Adam is one of the finest translators of evidence into concrete classroom strategies, and this post is a great example of that. Adam examines a practice I have done 1000s of times without giving it a single thought - what I do when a child is giving an answer - highlights the issue, and then suggests how we can improve it.

2. Messy markbooks: monitoring participation in (and across) lessons by David Didau

In maths, it is pretty easy to see the answers of all students at the same time to most questions using a mini-whiteboard. But that doesn't mean Cold Call should be abandoned altogether. If I want students to give a reason, or describe several steps, or construct a solution together, Cold Calling is my go-to. But keeping track of who I have Cold Called and, more importantly, who I need to question again or speak to later in the lesson, can be tricky. The two ideas shared in David’s post might just offer the solution: using a clipboard and a messy markbook!

3. GCSE Revision by Jo Morgan

Let’s end with one for the maths geeks! The official Queen of Resources, Jo Morgan, has compiled a super useful list of all the best places to find either topic-specific or mixed-topic revision materials. There are some absolute corkers in here.

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Craig