The Importance of Aspirational Questions

In this episode I talk to fellow maths teacher, Craig Latimir, about his process for planning a lesson... and it takes us 3 hours. But this is one of my favourite conversations I have had on the podcast. It should be useful whatever your level of teaching experience, but particularly useful for those n the early stages of their career. I wish I had had someone like Craig to stop me from making so many planning errors in the early days! For resources and videos from this episode just follow this link: mrbartonmaths.com/blog/how-to-plan-a-maths-lesson

Useful time-stamps:

• Craig and I discuss our past lesson planning crimes (15:01)
• Craig shares his key principles for lesson planning (22:45)
• Craig tells us the first thing he thinks about when planning (52:18)
• Craig discusses how he plans and delivers the Do Now (57:18)
• Then the exposition (1:20:37)
• Then modelling (1:29:04)
• Then how he questions and checks for understanding (1:44:32)
• Then how he responds to those checks (1:59:56)
• Then the practice phase (2:08:00)
• And finally the end of the lesson (2:16:15)
• I begin my reflection on all I learned from Craig (2:55:36)