More confidence is good, right? Learners require confidence to try out ideas, engage in group work and enjoy their learning. It follows that educators...

A fresh teaching contract or a new term is on the way, and it's time to plan. Or time to procrastinate - because planning an entire unit of teaching c...

Teachers should be guides and mentors. But too often we act more like gatekeepers, consciously or unconsciously deriving control and power by granting...

Are the best lessons loud and frenetic, or quiet and focused? Some of us worry that our teaching is too chaotic; others that it is too dull. Our attem...

Do you ever feel like the teaching bit of your life is overtaking the rest of it? Like your week is dominated by the rigid reality of your teaching co...

You ask your learners a question ... and they just stare at you blankly. Awkward silence descends. It's rough. As teachers we WANT to engage our learn...

At a concert, the best sound is in the middle. Find yourself stuck at the edge and you won't have a great night. It's the same with teaching: we're al...

Only by interacting with our learners can we engage, challenge and support them. But learning space interaction is often restricted by forces of habit...

They may sound like two more examples of awful educational jargon, but understanding and differentiating between learning objectives and learning outc...

It may be one of the driest, most uninspiring topics in education, but getting assessment figured out is the key to planning effective learning. In th...