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Bruce Robertson @brucenextlevel.bsky.social · 8h

🏆 Technique of the Week: Show-Me Boards

One of the best techniques we can use to:
✅ Make all students think
✅ Give all students time to think
✅ Get all students to commit to an answer
✅ Make all students’ thinking visible

Full details here: teachingpowerups.com/techniqueoft...

Bruce Robertson @brucenextlevel.bsky.social · 1d

Teaching-centred leaders use their time in ways that are different to other leaders. Activities that support the continuous improvement of teaching and learning are prioritised and swim; other ‘stuff’ sinks.

What should be swimming and sinking in your team?

Bruce Robertson @brucenextlevel.bsky.social · 1d

A super morning presenting to 100 headteachers in Dumfries and Galloway. We were exploring principles and strategies to power up our leadership of teaching and learning.

Great to have so much interest in teachingpowerups.com as a resource to support coaching 😊

Bruce Robertson @brucenextlevel.bsky.social · 2d

So many wonderful comments from teachers at Boclair Academy - it means a lot 😊

Some highlights:

-The best CPD I’ve had in 20 years.

-The real deal. No gimmicks - just strategies that really work.

-This is my day off but I came in because I enjoyed your last session so much.

Bruce Robertson @brucenextlevel.bsky.social · 3d

It was an absolute pleasure to work with teachers at Castlemilk High School, Glasgow, this afternoon.

We were exploring principles and techniques to power up our active learning and questioning.

Super discussion. And thank you very much for the card and gift - extremely kind 😊

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Bruce Robertson @brucenextlevel.bsky.social · 6d

🏆 Technique of the Week: Concept Cartoons

teachingpowerups.com/techniqueoft...

A technique to encourage students to think about specific things, in specific ways, and tease out misconceptions.

✅ Active learning
✅ Collaborative learning
✅ Responsive teaching

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Bruce Robertson @brucenextlevel.bsky.social · 7d

🏆 Technique of the Week: Concept Cartoons

teachingpowerups.com/techniqueoft...

A technique to encourage students to think about specific things, in specific ways, and tease out misconceptions.

✅ Active learning
✅ Collaborative learning
✅ Responsive teaching

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Bruce Robertson @brucenextlevel.bsky.social · 7d

A super session with teachers at Springburn Academy, Glasgow, this afternoon. We were focusing on principles and techniques to power up our adaptive teaching and the development of higher-order thinking. Great discussion from everyone 😊

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Bruce Robertson @brucenextlevel.bsky.social · 8d

“I’ve never seen success criteria explained as clearly before” was a particularly nice comment to hear from a Primary teacher who was part of this afternoon’s online twilight with Park Primary School, Stranraer 😊

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Bruce Robertson @brucenextlevel.bsky.social · 9d

A super twilight session with teachers from Kinloss Primary. We were exploring and dispelling five ‘teaching delusions’ that can send us in the wrong direction, based on messages from The Teaching Delusion 2: Teaching Strikes Back👇

Bruce Robertson @brucenextlevel.bsky.social · 10d

I’m really looking forward to the online Teaching Delusions twilight with Kinloss Primary this afternoon.

➡️ The student-led learning delusion
➡️ The active learning delusion
➡️ The higher-order thinking delusion
➡️ The closed questions delusion
➡️ The motivational messages & praise delusion

Bruce Robertson @brucenextlevel.bsky.social · 10d

🏆 Technique of the Week: Different Angles

A technique to encourage students to think about specific content in different ways, over spaced periods of time: teachingpowerups.com/techniqueoft...

There are over 100 techniques like this on the new Teaching PowerUps website: teachingpowerups.com

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Bruce Robertson @brucenextlevel.bsky.social · 10d

Thank you very much 👍

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Bruce Robertson @brucenextlevel.bsky.social · 11d

I’m really looking forward to this morning’s keynote presentation with teachers from Dungannon and Cookstown. An audience of 600 is probably the largest I will ever have presented to!

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Bruce Robertson @brucenextlevel.bsky.social · 11d

Belfast bound!

I always love working in Northern Ireland and am really looking forward to the keynote and workshops I’m leading with teachers from Dungannon and Cookstown tomorrow 😊

➡️ Power Up Your Pedagogy
➡️ Power Up Your Questioning
➡️ Power Up Your Adaptive Teaching

Bruce Robertson @brucenextlevel.bsky.social · 13d

Technique of the Week: Different Angles

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

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Bruce Robertson @brucenextlevel.bsky.social · 14d

🏆 Technique of the Week: Different Angles

A technique to support practice and questioning.

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

There are over 100 more techniques on the new Teaching PowerUps membership website: teachingpowerups.com/membership

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Bruce Robertson @brucenextlevel.bsky.social · 16d

A cracking afternoon with teachers in the Annan Cluster. We were exploring principles and techniques to power up our questioning.

➡️ Spotlight Assessment
➡️ Drill Down
➡️ Bounce
➡️ Patient Hands
➡️ Show-me Boards
➡️ Confidence Measures
➡️ Choral Response
➡️ …and more!

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Bruce Robertson @brucenextlevel.bsky.social · 17d

🏆 TECHNIQUE OF THE WEEK: Confidence Measures

A technique to encourage participation and find out if an answer is a guess: teachingpowerups.com/techniqueoft...

There are over 100 more on the new Teaching PowerUps website: teachingpowerups.com/membership

Bruce Robertson @brucenextlevel.bsky.social · 17d

A really great morning with teachers in Largs Academy. We were exploring ways to power up our active learning.

➡️ Cognitively active (rather than physically active for no good reason)
➡️ Being busy activities vs learning activities
➡️ Spotlight Assessment

A brilliant group to work with 😊

Bruce Robertson @brucenextlevel.bsky.social · 19d

The last three Techniques of the Week:

🏆Drill Down
🏆Stripped-back Slides
🏆Confidence Measures

You can access them all here: teachingpowerups.com/techniqueoft...

If your school is interested in Teaching PowerUps membership, there are more details here: teachingpowerups.com/membership

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Bruce Robertson @brucenextlevel.bsky.social · 20d

🏆 TECHNIQUE OF THE WEEK: Confidence Measures

A technique to encourage participation and find out if an answer is a guess: teachingpowerups.com/techniqueoft...

There are over 100 Trusted Techniques like this on the new Teaching PowerUps membership website: teachingpowerups.com

Bruce Robertson @brucenextlevel.bsky.social · 21d

🏆 TECHNIQUE OF THE WEEK: Confidence Measures

A technique to encourage participation and find out if an answer is a guess: teachingpowerups.com/techniqueoft...

There are over 100 Trusted Techniques like this on the new Teaching PowerUps membership website: teachingpowerups.com

Bruce Robertson @brucenextlevel.bsky.social · 22d

It was great to work with around 100 primary teachers in Park Primary, Stranraer, yesterday afternoon. This was the first of a series of twilights using a hybrid in-person/online model. A brilliant group to work with (and nice to see so many copies of Power Up Your Pedagogy in the audience 😊)

Bruce Robertson @brucenextlevel.bsky.social · 23d

A hugely successful ‘Train the Trainer’ day with staff at Keith Grammar School, Moray, today.

➡️ Trusted Techniques
➡️ Coaching Guides
➡️ Pedagogical Principles
➡️ Common Pitfalls

The day focused on powering up teams of staff to lead high-quality CPD for their colleagues: teachingpowerups.com