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05 - Tom Sherrington on why we need effective and precise teaching techniques

Knowledge for Teachers

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How to Be a Better Questioner

I feel like, I mean, there are different schools of thought about this, but my feeling is that it really helps to have techniques which you can give a name to. So when they're saying, am I doing it or not, we're actually not talking about the same thing. The more precise you can be about what it is, what it isn't, it's not because you're trying to form rules. One without the other is much less effective. You need to explain the rationale for a technique and talk about why it would work almost as much as the specific steps of doing it. People in the teaching world want to discuss the things they do every day or even if they

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