Finally,it is worth heedingthe valuehe attaches tomodelling as a mode of instruction. Live modelling–where teachers demonstrate exactly what is expected of students and articulate their own thoughts while doing so–is a valuable addition to any teacher’s toolkit,helpingto reinforce success criteria and identify challenges students are likely to encounter in completing a task. The new, fully updated edition of Ross Morrison McGill's bestselling Mark. Plan. Teach., now complete with a visual guide to the key ideas, illustrated by Oliver Caviglioli. Every idea in Mark. Plan. Teach. can be implemented by all primary and secondary teachers at any stage of their career.

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A few years ago, some of my students successfully nominated me for Boston College’s Excellence in Teaching with Technology Award, which I received in 2015. Yet, at the very same time of my nomination, I had one of my most difficult teaching moments ever. There are three things that every teacher must do: mark work, plan lessons and teach students well. With teachers’ workload at record levels and teacher recruitment and retention the number one issue in education, ideas that really work and will help teachers not only survive but thrive in the classroom are in demand. Every idea in Mark. Plan. Teach. can be implemented by all primary and secondary teachers at any stage of their career and will genuinely improve practice. The ideas have been tried and tested and are supported by evidence that explains why they work, including current educational research and psychological insights from Dr Tim O’Brien, leading psychologist and Visiting Fellow at UCL Institute of Education. McGillinsists that teaching boils down to three activitiesthatmustbeperformedwell–marking, planningandteaching. Here, heoffersten ideasto improvetheeffectiveness and efficiencyof each,withhelpful,accessible summaries of the researchunderpinninghisproposals. Sharing Mark Plan Teach with 30,000 teachers, I often advocated that teaching is a team sport. Experienced teachers must help newer teachers solve complex, classroom problems.What did I learn from this experience? For one thing, as innovation after innovation had landed successfully in my classes, I just wanted the rush of more of them. I was over-planning due to over-excitement. The classes were becoming expressions of my passions but ignoring theirs. Second, I was a victim (or beneficiary) of my own hubris. Just because I was Teacher of the Year with one bunch of classes didn’t mean I could be Teacher of the Year in all of them.

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A must-read for school leaders and teacher trainers ... I wish every school leader would read this book' Dr Min Du, Teacher, researcher and international education consultantInSection 2 (Plan),McGillargues that effective planningcentresonthe knowledge studentsmusttake forward.When planning lessons or curricula, we should askwhy students are doing particular activities and what they contribute to learning.