Teaching practice
A five-minute check for understanding from any lesson
Write three to five questions that show what a class understood, run them in five minutes and use the answers to plan the next lesson.
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Blog
Practical notes for teachers on checking understanding, writing better questions and keeping pupil data safe.
Learning science
Retrieval practice: why low-stakes quizzes beat re-reading
What the research on retrieval practice found, where it is thin, and how to run a five-minute low-stakes quiz in a UK classroom next week.
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Data and privacy
What a UK school should ask a quiz tool about pupil data
A checklist of questions to put to any online quiz tool before pupils use it, with the DfE and ICO guidance behind each question.
· 6 min read
Assessment
Writing multiple-choice questions: stems, distractors and Bloom's levels
Write multiple-choice questions that show what pupils think: clear stems, wrong answers built from real misconceptions and a question for each Bloom level.
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Switching
Moving your quizzes from Kahoot, Blooket or Moodle
What Kahoot, Blooket and Moodle let you export, what each file format keeps, and how to check an import before a class sees it.
· 5 min read
Teaching practice
Ten formative checks for the last ten minutes of a lesson
Ten quick checks for the end of a lesson, from mini-whiteboards to hinge questions, with when each works best, one pitfall and its sources.
· 6 min read