Category: Professional Development
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Professional development: from answers to problems
I’ve worked as a teacher educator now for almost 7 years. Here’s an account of how my mental model of training teachers has developed over that time, peppered with italicised realisations I wish I’d known sooner. Answers I started coaching teachers who were new to the profession. These teachers (like me when I trained) were […]
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A learning-first approach to improving your teaching
How do you decide what to improve in your teaching? What knowledge do you use to make the decision? What’s your decision-making process? In this blog I’ll take you through a model that could help you diagnose what to improve in your teaching. I call it the learning-first approach.* It relies on the teacher having […]
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No more teaching tips and tricks
What tip/trick are you going to learn from this post that you can use on Monday morning? Absolutely nothing. And, guess what? You’re going to be happy you didn’t. When I started teaching, I thought professional development meant picking up the next shiny thing to do in my classroom. Only once I’d gathered a critical […]
Evidence for Educators 