Five Best Bets for Teaching & Learning with Jon Hutchinson

In this episode I speak with Jon Hutchinson, Director of Training and Development at the Reach Foundation. Jon is also a Visiting Fellow at Ambition Institute for their Masters in Expert Teaching programme. Jon has spoken at ResearchEd events and has contributed a superb chapter on Instructional Coaching for the 'ResearchEd Guide to Leadership'. Jon blogs at www.pedfed.wordpress.com We explore in depth Jon's thinking behind his 'Five Best Bets for Teaching & Learning' which are: 1. Low Stakes Quizzing 2. Instructional Coaching 3. Sequencing Curriculum 4. Improving Ratio 5. Learning about Cognitive Load Theory You can read the original post Jon wrote on this here: https://www.teachfirst.org.uk/blog/five-best-bets-improve-teaching-and-learning-year-ahead You can follow Jon on twitter @jon_hutchinson_ Get involved and share widely. Keep the conversation going using #becomingeducated and tagging me @dnleslie If you have time I would love for you to review Becoming Educated and share what you love about the podcast. You can support the podcast by buying me a coffee here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dnleslie This episode is sponsored by UpLearn: Up Learn is an online, curriculum-learning resource for A Levels that helps teachers improve educational outcomes amongst students, whilst reducing their own workloads. Developed by an experienced team of educators, Up Learn courses contain high-quality videos, quizzes and exam preparation material. Teachers direct students to certain sections of Up Learn as homework, facilitating flipped learning, consolidation of classroom material and independent learning. 97% of students who complete an Up Learn course achieve A*/A, with many starting from D's and U's. What could yours achieve? Find out by booking a demo today at uplearn.co.uk, and be sure to quote Becoming Educated for a 10% discount. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.