Bruce Robertson

🏆 TECHNIQUE OF THE WEEK: Multiple Concrete Examples

A technique to support teacher presentations and guided practice.

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🏆 TECHNIQUE OF THE WEEK: Multiple Concrete Examples

A technique to support teacher presentations and guided practice.

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Get in touch if your school is interested in becoming a Teaching PowerUps member: teachingpowerups.com

Want to develop your use of learning intentions? Power Up Your Pedagogy can help 😊

The book unpacks teaching practice using sketchnotes summaries, such as this one👇

“To all teachers I would say: study this book, learn from it and act on it.” @profcoe.bsky.social

‘Power Up Your Pedagogy’ uses sketchnotes (produced by Finola Wilson) to summarise key messages from the text, such as this one👇

“Clear, practical, easy to apply and highly likely to improve your teaching practice.” -Doug Lemov

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A super afternoon with middle and senior leaders at Caldervale High School, exploring principles and strategies to power up our leadership of teaching and learning.

✅ Professional reading
✅ Professional learning at the heart of departmental meetings
✅ Coaching approaches

A great morning with teachers at Caldervale High School, exploring principles and techniques to power up our pedagogy. For example:

➡️ We learn what we think about.
➡️ Being busy and learning are not the same thing.
➡️ Novices and experts think and learn differently.

Super discussion 😊

It’s always great to work with teachers at Boclair Academy. In our third session together this year, we were focusing on presenting content, practice and differentiated support and challenge.

Great to hear our previous sessions have had such positive impact in the classroom 😊

Another great session with teachers at Whitehill Secondary School, Glasgow. We were exploring ways to power up students’ thinking. Super discussion and contributions from everyone. I’m looking forward to our next session in January 😊

🏆 Technique of the Week: Push for Perfect

A technique to support questioning and help develop a culture of high expectations.

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I thoroughly enjoyed my two days in Moray, working with primary teachers from Kinloss,
Pilmuir, Andersons, Applegrove, Dallas, Dyke, Logie, Mosstodloch and St. Gerardine, and secondary teachers from Elgin High, Elgin Academy and Keith Grammar 😊

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A great afternoon working with teachers from Keith Grammar and Elgin Academy. We were building on previous sessions and focusing on how we can power up our:
✅ Interactive pedagogy
✅ Learning intentions
✅ Success criteria
✅ Plenaries
✅ Retrieval practice

A super morning working with teachers at Elgin High School. We were focusing on principles and techniques to power up our pedagogy, including:

✅Show-me Boards
✅Chat To A Partner
✅Explain It Back
✅Spotlight Assessment Activities

Great input and discussion from everyone 😊

‘Power Up Your Questioning’ uses Common Pitfalls, Power-Up Prompts and Trusted Techniques to explore six questioning themes👇

“An enticing format, a dynamism of flow throughout the book, and a worthwhile addition to the teacher toolkit.” -John Hattie

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All the staff from the eight primary schools at today’s professional development session have a copy of at least one of the Power Up books.

🟣 The Teaching Delusion 1 - 3
🟢 Power Up Your Pedagogy
🔵 Power Up Your Questioning

Great to hear how useful everyone finds them all 😊

Power Up Your Questioning discusses questioning as a catalyst for learning and route map for responsive teaching👇

“Masterfully weaves the evidence-informed ideas of edu-greats into pedagogy that teachers can incorporate into daily practices.” @patricebain.bsky.social

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🏆 Technique of the Week: Push for Perfect

A technique to support questioning and high expectations.

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There are over 100 techniques on the new Teaching PowerUps website, which now has over 60 member schools. Get in touch if you’d like to join 😊

And thank you for this 😊

Agreed. Students need to play their part as much as the teacher does their’s.

‘Power Up Your Questioning’ explores this topic as 6 themes👇

“A masterclass in transforming classroom questioning into a powerful tool for learning.” - Carl Hendrick

“Every CPD library should include this book, and every teacher should read it!” - Rob Coe

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Amongst many lovely comments at Cardinal
Wiseman School today, a particular standout was the headteacher saying that the ‘learning and how it happens’ section of Power Up Your Questioning is one of the best distillations of key messages he’s come across.

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What a brilliant group of staff the Cardinal Wiseman School team in Birmingham were to work with!

We were exploring principles and techniques to power up our interactive teaching. Superb contributions and discussion from everyone 😊

Every teacher at Cardinal Wiseman School, Birmingham, has a copy of Power Up Your Questioning - wonderful!

We spent the day unpacking the book, focusing on the practical application of key themes.

I’m delighted so many people who attended my researchED session, Power Up Your Curriculum, in Edinburgh and Cambridge found it so useful.

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Good to be working with teachers from Park Primary, Stranraer, and neighbouring primary schools for our third Power Up Your Pedagogy twilight. Today’s focus was presenting content and practice. We explored various Trusted Techniques that support both themes, such as this one👇

🏆 TECHNIQUE OF THE WEEK: Explain it Back

A technique to encourage active participation (thinking) and help check understanding.

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Get in touch if you’re interested in Teaching PowerUps membership for your school 😊

Really nice to get such positive feedback from George Heriot’s School, Edinburgh, about my days’ work with teachers last week👇

“…some of the best professional learning that we’ve had in recent times.”

If you’d like to work with me, get in touch here: nextleveleducational.com

researchED Edinburgh was wonderful! So many great speakers and delegates. Hard to imagine how it could have been better.

A huge well done to everyone involved in organising such a successful day of high-quality professional development 😊

🏆 TECHNIQUE OF THE WEEK: Explain it Back

A technique to encourage active participation (thinking) and help check understanding.

Explore it here: teachingpowerups.com/techniqueoft...

Get in touch if you’re interested in Teaching PowerUps membership for your school 😊

Another great session with teachers at Glenwood High School, Glenrothes. This was the third in a series of Power Up Your Pedagogy inputs, with the focus today on learning intentions, success criteria and adaptive teaching.

Great to hear about all the positive impact of the previous sessions 😊

Your session got a big plug when I was working with teachers in George Heriot’s on Monday 😊