Thread by @teacherhead

Short 🧵on my #rED23 talk:
Expert creative pros develop a repertoire of secure techniques through practice that allow them to respond in the moment with flair and precision. Jazz, tennis....
Teaching is the same.

The central challenge of teaching is to teach every child at once - each matters as much as any other. It's really hard and inherently flawed .. so our routines and habits need to maximise our chance of success..

Being evidence informed requires us to assimilate a lot of ideas and then translate them into meaningful actions. I've tried to summarise it as ALL thinking, making meaning and practising.. with teachers being responsive according to success...

The ALL means doing things that systematically, explicitly, deliberately involve all students:

We then need techniques that are each strongly effective that we can combine flexibly in order to be responsive.. teaching has a spontaneity with multiple decisions so a repertoire of strong techniques is essential. It allows multiple degrees of freedom.. eg questioning.

Defining techniques helps you to do them really well and to build a shared understanding across a team or school which helps you to improve how well you do them. We explore these four with practical examples. Precision in technique allows you to be creative and effective.

Finally - the value of evidence engagement is only realised if our habits change positively as a result. This needs us to develop and master routines and techniques that embed the concepts,, we can't and won't be mentally browsing our CPD libraries during a lesson! #rED23