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Level Up Resilience
Being able to cope with, and overcome, difficulty and challenge is one of the key elements in becoming a successful …
Level Up Learner Clarity
The more clarity learners have about what to do, how to do it, and what the final outcome should look …
Level Up Lesson Openers
Psychologists have coined the expression the ‘primacy effect’ for the way the human brain has an uncanny knack of having …
Level Up Playfulness
By playful we mean creative strategies which help learners explore and interact with their learning. Playfulness often stimulates fun, which …
Level Up Mindsets
Learners with a fixed mindset wants to ‘look smart’ even if it means not learning a thing in the process. …
Level Up Curiosity
Curiosity can be aroused in many ways, such as stimulating questions, teases, predictions, wonder and even awe. It is particularly …
Level Up Meta-Cognition
Meta-cognition entails an awareness of your own thinking. The strategies in this 4by4 help train learners to become better thinkers, …
Teach Secondary article
Foundations of Flow How often are your learners so engaged, that you could turn the school bell off and they …
Level up Classroom Dialogue
Many teachers we work with, come to realise that they talk too much. Some teachers know this before they go …
Level Up Learning Performances
A key part of backward planning lessons is to ensure that there are opportunities to gain feedback from learners about …
MALIT in Copenhagen
MALIT were invited to deliver keynote presentation by the Presidency of the Danish School Council at their annual conference at Eigtveds …
Inaugural Outstanding Teaching Conference
Prospero House in London was the venue for our first national Outstanding Teaching conference this week attended by over 200 …
Level up Pre-assessment
We are evangelists for planning lessons backwards as we discuss in chapter six of our recent book. Planning starts with …
Level up competency
Most student surveys suggest that what they most want from school is confidence. By looking to build a student’s competence …
Level up Rapport
September sees the start of the school year. It can be a disconcerting time for learners as well as teachers. …