Power Up Your Questioning discusses questioning as a catalyst for learning and route map for responsive teaching👇 “Masterfully weaves the evidence-informed ideas of edu-greats into pedagogy that teachers can incorporate into daily practices.” @patricebain.bsky.social amzn.eu/d/bIcLeiT

🏆 Technique of the Week: Push for Perfect A technique to support questioning and high expectations. Explore it here: teachingpowerups.com/techniqueoft... There are over 100 techniques on the new Teaching PowerUps website, which now has over 60 member schools. Get in touch if you’d like to join 😊

‘Power Up Your Questioning’ explores this topic as 6 themes👇 “A masterclass in transforming classroom questioning into a powerful tool for learning.” - Carl Hendrick “Every CPD library should include this book, and every teacher should read it!” - Rob Coe amzn.eu/d/2Jqijno

Amongst many lovely comments at Cardinal Wiseman School today, a particular standout was the headteacher saying that the ‘learning and how it happens’ section of Power Up Your Questioning is one of the best distillations of key messages he’s come across. Available here: amzn.eu/d/2KQvxVX

What a brilliant group of staff the Cardinal Wiseman School team in Birmingham were to work with! We were exploring principles and techniques to power up our interactive teaching. Superb contributions and discussion from everyone 😊

Every teacher at Cardinal Wiseman School, Birmingham, has a copy of Power Up Your Questioning - wonderful! We spent the day unpacking the book, focusing on the practical application of key themes.

I’m delighted so many people who attended my researchED session, Power Up Your Curriculum, in Edinburgh and Cambridge found it so useful. If you’re interested in similar input for your school, local authority or trust, please get in touch: nextleveleducational.com

Good to be working with teachers from Park Primary, Stranraer, and neighbouring primary schools for our third Power Up Your Pedagogy twilight. Today’s focus was presenting content and practice. We explored various Trusted Techniques that support both themes, such as this one👇

🏆 TECHNIQUE OF THE WEEK: Explain it Back A technique to encourage active participation (thinking) and help check understanding. Explore it here: teachingpowerups.com/techniqueoft... Get in touch if you’re interested in Teaching PowerUps membership for your school 😊

Really nice to get such positive feedback from George Heriot’s School, Edinburgh, about my days’ work with teachers last week👇 “…some of the best professional learning that we’ve had in recent times.” If you’d like to work with me, get in touch here: nextleveleducational.com

researchED Edinburgh was wonderful! So many great speakers and delegates. Hard to imagine how it could have been better. A huge well done to everyone involved in organising such a successful day of high-quality professional development 😊

🏆 TECHNIQUE OF THE WEEK: Explain it Back A technique to encourage active participation (thinking) and help check understanding. Explore it here: teachingpowerups.com/techniqueoft... Get in touch if you’re interested in Teaching PowerUps membership for your school 😊

Another great session with teachers at Glenwood High School, Glenrothes. This was the third in a series of Power Up Your Pedagogy inputs, with the focus today on learning intentions, success criteria and adaptive teaching. Great to hear about all the positive impact of the previous sessions 😊

And mine, that will show the mistakes we made in presentations, and how to do it better.

If you’re coming to researchED Edinburgh on Saturday, I’d love to see you at my session: Power Up Your Curriculum 😊

I really enjoyed working with primary and secondary teachers in the Bo’ness Cluster this afternoon. Our theme was ‘Power Up Your Adaptive Teaching’. ➡️Cognitive science ➡️Pedagogical Principles ➡️Trusted Techniques I’m looking forward to our next twilight next month 😊

🏆 TECHNIQUE OF THE WEEK: Return Visit A technique that can be useful if a student gets the answer to a question wrong or says ‘I don’t know’. Explore it here: teachingpowerups.com/techniqueoft... There are over 100 more techniques on the Teaching PowerUps website: teachingpowerups.com

A super day working with teachers at George Heriot’s School, Edinburgh. ➡️Knowledge vs skills ➡️Teacher-led vs student-led approaches ➡️Cognitive science ➡️Questioning ➡️Practice ➡️Retrieval ➡️Trusted Techniques A really great group of staff to work with 😊

🏆 TECHNIQUE OF THE WEEK: Return Visit A technique that can be useful if a student gets the answer to a question wrong or says ‘I don’t know’. Explore it here: teachingpowerups.com/techniqueoft... There are over 100 more techniques on the new Teaching PowerUps website: teachingpowerups.com

I thoroughly enjoyed presenting ‘Power Up Your Curriculum’ to a brilliant audience at researchED Cambridge. Lots of great discussion. Thank you to everyone who stuck around afterwards to say how much they’d enjoyed the session 😊 #rEDCam25

A really great day working with primary teachers in West Berkshire. We were exploring principles and techniques to power up your pedagogy, including: ➡️Presenting ➡️Questioning ➡️Practice ➡️Support and challenge ➡️Professional development Brilliant discussion from everyone 😊

Hope to see you at researchED Cambridge on Saturday to explore ways to Power Up Your Curriculum. ➡️Knowledge vs skills ➡️Transferable skills delusions ➡️The 5Cs of a high-quality, content-rich curriculum Lots of brilliant speakers. Tickets: researched.org.uk/event/resear...

A super morning working with teachers at St Benedict’s High School, Renfrewshire. We were powering up our: ✅ Learning intentions ✅ Success criteria ✅ Presentations ✅ Practice ✅ Professional development using teachingpowerups.com A great group of staff to work with 😊

🏆 Technique of the Week: Show-Me Boards One of the best techniques we can use to: ✅ Make all students think ✅ Give all students time to think ✅ Get all students to commit to an answer ✅ Make all students’ thinking visible Full details here: teachingpowerups.com/techniqueoft...

A superb day working with teachers at Jordanhill School. ➡️ Power Up Your Leadership of Teaching and Learning ➡️ Power Up Your Pedagogy Great discussion and a fantastic group of staff to work with 😊

🏆 Technique of the Week: Show-Me Boards One of the best techniques we can use to: ✅ Make all students think ✅ Give all students time to think ✅ Get all students to commit to an answer ✅ Make all students’ thinking visible Full details here: teachingpowerups.com/techniqueoft...

Teaching-centred leaders use their time in ways that are different to other leaders. Activities that support the continuous improvement of teaching and learning are prioritised and swim; other ‘stuff’ sinks. What should be swimming and sinking in your team?

A super morning presenting to 100 headteachers in Dumfries and Galloway. We were exploring principles and strategies to power up our leadership of teaching and learning. Great to have so much interest in teachingpowerups.com as a resource to support coaching 😊

So many wonderful comments from teachers at Boclair Academy - it means a lot 😊 Some highlights: -The best CPD I’ve had in 20 years. -The real deal. No gimmicks - just strategies that really work. -This is my day off but I came in because I enjoyed your last session so much.

It was an absolute pleasure to work with teachers at Castlemilk High School, Glasgow, this afternoon. We were exploring principles and techniques to power up our active learning and questioning. Super discussion. And thank you very much for the card and gift - extremely kind 😊

🏆 Technique of the Week: Concept Cartoons teachingpowerups.com/techniqueoft... A technique to encourage students to think about specific things, in specific ways, and tease out misconceptions. ✅ Active learning ✅ Collaborative learning ✅ Responsive teaching

🏆 Technique of the Week: Concept Cartoons teachingpowerups.com/techniqueoft... A technique to encourage students to think about specific things, in specific ways, and tease out misconceptions. ✅ Active learning ✅ Collaborative learning ✅ Responsive teaching

A super session with teachers at Springburn Academy, Glasgow, this afternoon. We were focusing on principles and techniques to power up our adaptive teaching and the development of higher-order thinking. Great discussion from everyone 😊

“I’ve never seen success criteria explained as clearly before” was a particularly nice comment to hear from a Primary teacher who was part of this afternoon’s online twilight with Park Primary School, Stranraer 😊

A super twilight session with teachers from Kinloss Primary. We were exploring and dispelling five ‘teaching delusions’ that can send us in the wrong direction, based on messages from The Teaching Delusion 2: Teaching Strikes Back👇

I’m really looking forward to the online Teaching Delusions twilight with Kinloss Primary this afternoon. ➡️ The student-led learning delusion ➡️ The active learning delusion ➡️ The higher-order thinking delusion ➡️ The closed questions delusion ➡️ The motivational messages & praise delusion

🏆 Technique of the Week: Different Angles A technique to encourage students to think about specific content in different ways, over spaced periods of time: teachingpowerups.com/techniqueoft... There are over 100 techniques like this on the new Teaching PowerUps website: teachingpowerups.com

I’m really looking forward to this morning’s keynote presentation with teachers from Dungannon and Cookstown. An audience of 600 is probably the largest I will ever have presented to!

Belfast bound! I always love working in Northern Ireland and am really looking forward to the keynote and workshops I’m leading with teachers from Dungannon and Cookstown tomorrow 😊 ➡️ Power Up Your Pedagogy ➡️ Power Up Your Questioning ➡️ Power Up Your Adaptive Teaching

Technique of the Week: Different Angles Explore it here: teachingpowerups.com/techniqueoft...

🏆 Technique of the Week: Different Angles A technique to support practice and questioning. Explore it here: teachingpowerups.com/techniqueoft... There are over 100 more techniques on the new Teaching PowerUps membership website: teachingpowerups.com/membership

A cracking afternoon with teachers in the Annan Cluster. We were exploring principles and techniques to power up our questioning. ➡️ Spotlight Assessment ➡️ Drill Down ➡️ Bounce ➡️ Patient Hands ➡️ Show-me Boards ➡️ Confidence Measures ➡️ Choral Response ➡️ …and more!

🏆 TECHNIQUE OF THE WEEK: Confidence Measures A technique to encourage participation and find out if an answer is a guess: teachingpowerups.com/techniqueoft... There are over 100 more on the new Teaching PowerUps website: teachingpowerups.com/membership

A really great morning with teachers in Largs Academy. We were exploring ways to power up our active learning. ➡️ Cognitively active (rather than physically active for no good reason) ➡️ Being busy activities vs learning activities ➡️ Spotlight Assessment A brilliant group to work with 😊

The last three Techniques of the Week: 🏆Drill Down 🏆Stripped-back Slides 🏆Confidence Measures You can access them all here: teachingpowerups.com/techniqueoft... If your school is interested in Teaching PowerUps membership, there are more details here: teachingpowerups.com/membership

🏆 TECHNIQUE OF THE WEEK: Confidence Measures A technique to encourage participation and find out if an answer is a guess: teachingpowerups.com/techniqueoft... There are over 100 Trusted Techniques like this on the new Teaching PowerUps membership website: teachingpowerups.com

🏆 TECHNIQUE OF THE WEEK: Confidence Measures A technique to encourage participation and find out if an answer is a guess: teachingpowerups.com/techniqueoft... There are over 100 Trusted Techniques like this on the new Teaching PowerUps membership website: teachingpowerups.com

It was great to work with around 100 primary teachers in Park Primary, Stranraer, yesterday afternoon. This was the first of a series of twilights using a hybrid in-person/online model. A brilliant group to work with (and nice to see so many copies of Power Up Your Pedagogy in the audience 😊)

A hugely successful ‘Train the Trainer’ day with staff at Keith Grammar School, Moray, today. ➡️ Trusted Techniques ➡️ Coaching Guides ➡️ Pedagogical Principles ➡️ Common Pitfalls The day focused on powering up teams of staff to lead high-quality CPD for their colleagues: teachingpowerups.com

I’m really looking forward to today’s Train the Trainer sessions with staff in Keith Grammar School. ✅ Learning intentions, success criteria & plenaries ✅ Pace & challenge ✅ Questioning Powering up staff to lead great CPD in their own schools: teachingpowerups.com