What can you do on Day 1 that has your students running back on Day 2?

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There are many blogs focused on learning

• Teacher Toolkit - Ross Morrison McCall's resource bank and blog, voted Best UK Education Blog (2015). Not an IB resource but contains a wealth of teacher resources on subjects as wide ranging as Teaching and Learning, Homework, Leadership, Continuing Professional Development. Worth spending time surfing this website, especially some of the 5 minute series which provide quick and easily accessible short cuts on everything from how to prepare for a job interview to how to bring about how school change.
• teacherhead - a blog by Tom Sherrington who has been a head and teacher. Although UK based Tom's blog provides some thoughtful pieces. especially useful are those where he summarizes a field of study such as Teaching and Learning Research Summaries. He also has a series on what makes great lessons.
• Teaching is real - a blog by Mark Enser, a teacher in the UK. He is also a contributor of thoughtful articles to the Tes.
• Pragmatic Education is about what works in education. It draws lessons from the world’s most successful school systems, and distils the best ideas for reform. A good distillation of research. Click HERE for a menu of blogs.
• Chronotope is a blog by Carl Hendrick, the head of Learning and Research at Wellington College. It contains some great summaries of research on teaching as well as practical tips on revision etc.

Welcome to Project Zero’s Thinking Routines Toolbox. A thinking routine is a set of questions, or a brief sequence of steps used to scaffold and support student thinking. PZ researchers designed thinking routines to deepen students’ thinking and to help make that thinking “visible.” Thinking routines help to reveal students’ thinking to the teacher and also help students themselves to notice and name particular “thinking moves,” making those moves more available and useful to them in other contexts. If you're new to thinking routines and PZ's research, please click here to explore more about thinking routines.

• Core thinking routines
• Global thinking
• Perspective taking
• Synthesizing and exploring ideas

Bringing all students into discussions: Techniques for fostering meaningful class discussions by getting even reluctant students to share their insights.

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Study after study tells us that teacher wellbeing is in danger of hitting rock bottom. What can we do to boost teacher wellbeing?

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infed stands for the encyclopaedia for informal education.

Their index of articles can be found by clicking here. It contains the following which you may find useful for discussion with colleagues:

• What is teaching? A definition and discussion.
• Action research
• Communities of practice
• Facilitating learning and change in groups and group sessions
• Leadership: an introduction to a series of pages on different models of leadership and theories of practice including classical models of leadership, shared leadership, Learning in organizations - theory and practice, The learning organization & Peter Senge and the learning organization.
• What is learning?

Multiple intelligences

Here are a few do's and don'ts to make for successful parent-teacher conferences.

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Is Everyone Thinking? What are they all thinking about? This is THE Key.

Whether students are learning or not learning, it’s possible to explore what is happening through the lens of considering what they are thinking about – or not thinking about; whether they are being made to think in ways that build their understanding, whether they have the foundations for the thinking required; whether they think with enough intensity or repetition about the same ideas; whether they can perform tasks or look ‘present’ without needing to think; whether the teacher creates the conditions for all students to engage in productive thinking or just some.

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