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📝 Weekly Report #16

👨‍🏫 Teaching:
Just like that Autumn Term is over and Christmas is round the corner. It's been a busy term with lots of ups and downs but I've continued to learn loads. 

📚 Read:
Jack Tavassoly-Marsh writes about how we can get the most from using mini whiteboards to check for understanding. They are such a great tool but we need to be able to use them effectively. Have a read here. 

📚 Read:
How do we get the most from meetings? Clarity about what the meeting is for, how to participate and how members will deal with the information afterwards will make them a lot more effective. Read more here. 

🔊 Listen: 
Knowledge project with John Maxwell talking leadership. He talks about this idea of evaluated experience to make us better. "Reflection turns experience into insight". Listen to it here.  

🔊 Listen:
Chris Williamson talking with Jake Humphrey about High Performance. Jake speaks about the lessons he's learnt from other high performers that he has spoken to as part of his podcast. A few things I took from this episode was: Start now, don't wait. Take responsibility, run towards and learn from failures. Be resilient. Be flexible in your approach. What isn't your fault is still your responsibility. Have a listen yourself here.

🔊 Listen:
Craig Barton speaking to Paul Rowlandson about interleaving in Maths. Onw thing that resonates with me was this idea that in education we have lots of these key words but they mean lots of different things to different people. Interleaving can be interpreted differently depending on what you have read or listened to. I think having a common language in education for a lot of these key terms will allow us to make quicker progress in how we implement these great things. Listen to them speak here. 

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