Whether you are just starting as a teacher or have been teaching for thirty years, Power Up Your The Illustrated Handbook of Teaching should prove invaluable as a handbook to support you make your teaching even better than it is already. If you are a middle or senior leader, it should prove just as valuable in helping you to support others. Field reports. If you are attending an event, conference or trip why not create a field report based around what you are doing and learning for students to listen to. Headteacher and author Bruce Robertson has teamed up with Finola Wilson of Impact Wales to publish a new handbook that aims to transform teaching practice. As a self-improvement and coaching resource, it is essential reading for all teachers and school leaders. I think we’ve created an amazing resource between us and I can’t wait to see how it’s used by teachers in the classroom.”

If you are a middle or senior leader, it should prove just as valuable in helping you to support others. Get ready to Power Up Your Pedagogy!Publisher's note: Power Up Your Pedagogy: The Illustrated Handbook of Teaching is effectively an expanded, visual version of The Teaching Delusion 3: Power Up Your Pedagogy. Teachers want to improve their teaching. They embrace any opportunity to learn. They want other professionals to watch them teach and to get into conversations about developing their practice. People were excited because it was something really accessible and practical, an easy-to-use resource focused on classroom practice.

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Professor John Hattie, Director of the Melbourne Educational Research Institute and author of Visible Learning and Visible Learning for Teachers In this blog post I’ll be introducing the concept of podcasts and talking about how they can be used within a teaching context. What are Podcasts and how can they be used in teaching?

Finola Wilson added: “It really is the only book you’ll ever need to improve your practice in the classroom.”If you are a teacher or school leader looking for a one-stop professional development resource focused on teaching practice, Power Up Your The Illustrated Handbook of Teaching is the perfect book for you.

Could be used as an alternative to presenting. This can aid inclusion particularly for students who may feel anxious or uncomfortable about speaking publicly in front of others but who could be more than happy to record a podcast that others could listen to instead. Enables students to learn valuable digital skills such as audio recording and editing, as well as improving vocal and communication skills in terms of explaining information succinctly and comprehensively. A podcast is an episodic series of audio recordings usually organised around a subject or theme, falling somewhere between a radio show and a blog. As a medium podcasts are immensely popular among young adults (15-24) with one in five now listening to podcasts regularly at least once a week. If you haven’t listened to a podcast before, you might like to try Impacted– a podcast created by the University of Sussex looking at the impact that research can have on the world or TEL: US– The Technology Enhanced Learning team’s own podcast.

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Audacity– A great free open source software available for both Mac and Windows desktop and laptop computers. Has a steeper learning curve but has a wide variety of features and editing options giving you greater freedom.