The Sweet Spot with Michael Chiles

Michael Chiles began as a geography teacher, head of department and senior leader with responsiblity for teaching and learning. Michael is now a head of department at a school in the north west of England. Michael is the author of three books including 'The Sweet Spot: Explaining and Modelling with Precision' We discuss the following and much much more: What teachers should consider when planning their classroom layout What we should consider when planning our wall displays as 'paying attention is a critical cog to enable learning' Why our PowerPoints, the staple of our lessons, create cognitive overload The importance of classroom culture Why it is important to prepare for and be precise with our explanations You can follow Michael on twitter @m_chiles 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.