One-Pagers: Teaching Summaries

As CPD coodinator at my school, I wanted a simple way for busy teachers to engage with evidence based practice and share ideas about good teaching. One-pagers are practical, bite-sized A4 summaries of context-free teaching strategies that help educators reflect on their practice and check their knowledge and understanding.

I have had a lots of positive feedback from teachers on Twitter who love the A4 format as it is accessible and succinct. The grid layout and design (clearly inspired by the brilliant Oliver Caviglioli) helps to break down and categorise information so it is easy to read and process. I included a range of educational voices who have inspired my own practice over the years — many of these educators I follow on Twitter and have a solid reputation sharing evidence based ideas. One of which, Tom Sherrington hit the nail on the head in his tweet explaining my one-pager:

Tom’s kind shout out on Twitter highlights how the one-pager summaries can be used to support teachers.

Summary 1: Feedback

This is the new and updated feedback one-pager. As you can see, Dylan Wiliam’s work underpins the information on this summary. However, it now includes actionable feedback strategies (Tom Sherrington); whole class feedback (Andrew Atherton) and a peer feedback section based on Ron Berger’s ‘kind, specific and helpful’ approach.

Updated Feedback page featuring Berger, Sherrington and Atherton’s great work.

Summary 2: Modelling & Thinking Aloud

This summary was originally going to be on metacognition. However, I decided to keep the one-page format practical and teacher focused rather than just breaking down heavy research. As a result, I interspersed critical points about metacognition and how it relates to modelling and thinking aloud process.

Summary 3: Retrieval Practice

I use retrieval practice strategies all of the time in my own teaching. This summary offers a whole heap of ideas and reminders. Originally, I made a mistake by indlcuding the (out-dated), ‘Multi-store Model of Memory’ diagram. After some brilliant feedback on Twitter, I quickly changed this to Daniel Willingham’s ‘Simple Memory Model’. Much better!

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If you are going to share the ‘One-pager: Teaching Summaries’ PDF online or in your school, please credit me - Jamie Clark (@XpatEducator). Thanks for the amazing response and keep a look out for more one-pagers coming soon!