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Product reviews for Think Before You Teach
Katy Hodges, lead practitioner and ITE coordinator, Westfield School, Sothall
All teachers should be asked some of the questions Martin Illingworth poses as they start each year. These questions help us to see beyond the data, the curriculum and Ofsted.
Every teacher, not just those in ITT and NQTs should use this book to remind themselves of why they want to teach, to see beyond the curriculum and inject some creativity that engages and inspires. The key question the book raised for me is are my lessons ones that I would engage with if I was a student? If the answer is no there has to be change.
The book highlights the need for teachers to see the students beyond the data. To recognise the flexible, developing, intelligent minds of individual students, rather than a levelled object, is crucial if teachers are to impact and engage. This book puts students at the heart of teaching. We should know our students not their levels. Teaching is becoming a mix of simplified acronyms. It's refreshing to read that teaching is and should be complex.
For any teacher, whether they are in year one or year 20, this book explores what we should want to teach not what we should have to.
Every teacher, not just those in ITT and NQTs should use this book to remind themselves of why they want to teach, to see beyond the curriculum and inject some creativity that engages and inspires. The key question the book raised for me is are my lessons ones that I would engage with if I was a student? If the answer is no there has to be change.
The book highlights the need for teachers to see the students beyond the data. To recognise the flexible, developing, intelligent minds of individual students, rather than a levelled object, is crucial if teachers are to impact and engage. This book puts students at the heart of teaching. We should know our students not their levels. Teaching is becoming a mix of simplified acronyms. It's refreshing to read that teaching is and should be complex.
For any teacher, whether they are in year one or year 20, this book explores what we should want to teach not what we should have to.
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