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Episode 129 - Controlling the Chaos with Stephanie Howell and Tara Ruckman
Dan interviews Stephanie Howell and Tara Ruckman to discuss their new #1 Amazon best-selling book "Control the Choas". Discover how you can help control your blended classroom by developing student executive...
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Episode 128 - Saving time with this simple hack
Discover how to save time as you write your reports and mark tasks with this simple hack
Parkinson's law - work expands to fulfil the time allowed for its completion.
We prioritise and get work done by their due...
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Episode 127 - Mastery Learning with Jon Bergmann
I really enjoyed interviewing Jon Bergmann (flipped learning pioneer and author of multiple books including recently "The Mastery Learning Handbook". Here Jon lays out what mastery learning is, how to plan for it, and...
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Episode 126 - Explicit teaching with Brendan Lee
In this interview with Brendan Lee (former Assistant Principal and classroom teacher in both primary school and high school) Dan and Brendan discuss explicit instruction. Brendan explains exactly what explicit...
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Episode 125 - 5 fun ways to engage your students at the beginning of your lesson
These 5 ideas will help you stand out from other lessons to classes and get your students engaged in learning right from the beginning.
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Purple cow classroom.
Lessons are all the same and can get boring… be the...
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Episode 124 - Reignite your passion with these 2 strategies
Discover 2 simple strategies you can apply to your calendar to save you time and increase your energy levels, enthusiasm and passion for teaching again.
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Episode 123 - A simple feedback strategy to get excited about
Discover a simple feedback process you can use to get great results from your students, but also that energizes you as a teacher.
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Episode 122 - 3 steps to switch your brain off from work
Learn how to enjoy life after work by enabling your brain to be free of the worries and thoughts of school life. Use these 3 steps to switch your brain off from work.
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Episode 121 - 3 emails you need to send to reduce your meetings
It's time to reduce your meetings and save yourself some time. If you are a school leader, let's stop having regular recurring meetings just because. Reduce your workload further by getting s copy of my book at...
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Episode 120 - How to improve student motivation to learn
Discover the keys to improving your students' motivation levels in your classroom. There are plenty of great tips in this episode to help get students interested and motivated to learn.
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Episode 119 - Discussing the top half of Bloom's taxonomy
Learn how to help your students analyse, evaluate and create as I look at the top of Bloom's taxonomy.
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Episode 118 - 6 tips to help students remember, understand and apply
The bottom of Bloom's pyramid is often neglected and I want to give you some tips to help students to remember, understand and apply content. The basis from which, higher order thinking can happen.
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