Free Posters

High-quality PDFs of my one-page posters are available to download for free. These resources were created by Jamie Clark and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License. All Rights Reserved 2024.

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Transformative Feedback

TRANSFORMATIVE FEEDBACK! This new poster written by Blanca Wilde Lopez and Valentina Devid highlights how effective feedback is all about timing and tailoring—ensuring it aligns perfectly with the student’s stage in the learning process!

SEND Students and Writing

✍️ Understanding the challenges faced by SEND students in writing is critical for all teachers. This collaboration with @MrFerguson85 offers key information and important strategies to support these learners. If you missed Martin’s talk at @researchEDBelf then you need a copy!

Classroom Management

This new A3 poster highlights the key principles and top routines from highly practical The Classroom Management Handbook by @coachdowley and @ollie_lovell. Grab your copy of the book via @JohnCattEd - the ideas have helped me personally create calmer, more focused classrooms!

Why Don’t Students Like School? (V2)

‘Why Don’t Students Like School?’ by Daniel Willingham is one of the most influential books for teachers on cognitive science. It explores how students’ minds work & how to use this knowledge to be a better teacher.

Cold Calling Explained

This A3 poster breaks down the ‘what’, ‘why’, and ‘how’ of the cold calling strategy, ensuring ALL students stay actively engaged in the thinking process

The Formative Action Model

This poster captures the five-step formative action model developed by the team at @toetsrevolutie in the Netherlands, designed to ensure a responsive learning process aimed at achieving mastery and independence.

Formative Action

This poster summarises the five core principles of formative action as formulated by Hilly Drok and Flemming van de Graaf in their blog post for The Formative Action School! @toetsrevolutie

Securing Attention

Students remember what they attend to… This poster summarises strategies that secure attention, ensuring students remain attentive and cognitively engaged throughout the lesson.

Formative Assessment (update)

⚠️This poster summarises Dylan Wiliam and Siobhán Leahy’s five essential FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT strategies that teachers can use to move learners forward.

Explicit Guidance

This one-pager explains why explicit guidance outperforms self-discovery models in learning! Based on the research of Kirschner, Clark, and Sweller, it highlights the crucial benefits of immediate feedback, efficiency, and strong support provided by guided instruction.

SODOTO Poster 3: Creative Writing

✍🏼 Wrapping up the series! ‘See One. Do One. Teach One.’ by Martin Ferguson continues to shine for English teachers. This third and final one-page poster focuses on Creative Writing, perfect for English NQTs. It’s an invaluable tool for mentors to spark insightful discussions.

Learning and Memory

🧠 This ‘Learning and Memory’ poster outlines the 5 main elements of the simple model of the mind (perfectly visualised by @olicav). These ideas underpin the first collection of summaries in my book ‘Teaching One-Pagers’.

SODOTO Poster 2: Literary Comparatives

Continuing the series! ‘See One. Do One. Teach One.’ by Martin Ferguson is a gem for English teachers. This second one-page poster is crafted for English NQTs and breaks down Martin’s step-by-step method for Literary Comparisons. Great for classroom walls!

SODOTO Poster 1: Persuasive Writing

✍️'See One. Do One. Teach One'. by Martin Ferguson is a practical little book and a must-have for all English teachers. This one-page poster is the first of a trilogy and designed specifically for English NQTs. It neatly summarises Martin's 3-step approach to persuasive writing!

Cognitive Engagement

For new knowledge to be encoded in long-term memory, we must drive thinking and ensure that students are cognitively engaged throughout the lesson. This new poster summarises how you can push ALL students to “think hard”.

Peer Critique for Students

NEW! Scaffolding peer feedback can help make it more supportive, motivating, and actionable. This handy resource is aimed at students and is designed to help them master the WHAT, WHY, and HOW of the peer critique process.

Think, Pair, Share for Students

Scaffolding Think, Pair, Share can help facilitate deep discussions and drive thinking from ALL students. This handy resource is designed to help students master the WHAT, WHY, and HOW of the process. Just one of the bonus freebies I shared in the ‘Cognitive Science in Education Conference’.

Explicit Direct Instruction (EDI)

A poster summarising Explicit Direct Instruction (EDI), based on Hollingsworth & Ybarra’s great book on the power of the well-crafted, well-taught lesson. The one-pager features ideas on: Student Engagement Norms, ’TAPPLE’ for CFU and Essential EDI Lesson Elements.

Feedback

A one-pager summarising feedback to help move learners forward. If you’re finding these summaries helpful, you might want to check out my upcoming book ‘Teaching One-Pagers’. The book simplifies complex research into digestible, actionable insights, perfect for busy teachers! Out soon!

An Ethic of Excellence

‘An Ethic of Excellence’ by Ron Berger champions a culture of craftsmanship and pride in student work. This one-page poster distils Berger’s transformative ideas, summarising practical insights for inspiring excellence in the classroom.

Principles of Instruction

Rosenshine’s Principles of Instruction edu-poster. A summary of the 10 research-based strategies that all teachers should know. A big thanks to Oliver Caviglioli for the excellent learning and memory diagram featured.

Cognitive Load Theory (update)

Dylan Wiliam said that Cognitive Load Theory is ‘the single most important thing for teachers to know’. This poster summarises some key ideas from CLT and offers 6 strategies to optimise instruction and maximise learning.

Cold Calling

Created a quick black-and-white A4 summary on cold calling to support some upcoming coaching conversations. Thanks to @Doug_Lemov and @teacherhead for their work on this powerful strategy.

High Leverage Mentoring Strategies

By Haili Hughes

This one-pager written by Haili Hughes focuses on five powerful mentoring strategies. Haili says: “Mentoring has many different facets but one of these is to facilitate improvements in teaching.” You can download her summary below.

Checking for Understanding

The latest addition to the one-pager collection. Checking for understanding based on Rosenshine’s Principles of Instruction.

Retrieval Practice

💪 This poster highlights RETRIEVAL PRACTICE as a powerful learning strategy and gives valuable insights on applying it in the classroom. Special thanks to @olicav for the learning and memory diagram!

Formative Assessment Moving Learners Forward

This one-pager summarises Dylan Wiliam and Siobhán Leahy’s five formative assessment strategies that teachers can use to support learning.

Explicit Instruction

A one pager capturing some of the main ideas from the excellent book ‘Explicit Instruction: Effective & Efficient Teaching’ by Anita L. Archer & Charles A. Hughes. Highly recommend you pick up a copy!

Read more: http://explicitinstruction.org

Making Every Lesson Count

Making Every Lesson Count by Andy Tharby and Shaun Allison still remains one of my top edu-books of all time. It’s a practical & accessible book based on 6 principles of great teaching. Check out one-page overview!

Cognitive Load Theory Explained

☝️ Dylan Wiliam said Cognitive Load Theory is ‘the single most important thing for teachers to know’. Here is a one-page summary of some key points & practical strategies to consider.

👊 Feel free to grab a HQ copy here!

Why Don’t Students Like School?

‘Why Don’t Students Like School?’ by Daniel Willingham is one of the most influential books for teachers on cognitive science. It explores how students’ minds work & how to use this knowledge to be a better teacher.

Edu-Research Compilation

I have compiled a list of my top research articles, videos and resources that have helped shape my teaching.

Instructional Coaching: Steplab

🙌 Thanks to Steplab, our school’s peer coaching PL program is off to a flying start. Here are some one-pagers I designed to summarise our approach & the IC observation & feedback processes.

Teaching Some vs Teaching All

This one-pager is based on Tom Sherrington’s blog: ‘Teaching Some vs Teaching All’. Checking that everyone is thinking is fundamental for learning. Here are six things to think about when trying to reach ALL students.

Questioning for Retrieval: 5 Mistakes to Avoid

This one-pager is based on Harry Fletcher-Wood’s recent blog and summarises the five most prevalent ways not to ask questions for retrieval - and what to do instead. Read Harry’s original blog post here.

Behaviour Management: Bill Rogers'

This one-pager summarises Dr. Bill Rogers’ classic behaviour management strategies. The man himself offered some feedback for this revised version (yes, really!)

Meaningful Learning

A one-pager I created for Sarah Cottingham summarising the implications of David Ausubel’s work on meaningful learning.

Sarah’s book, Meaningful Learning In Action comes out summer 2023!

Powerful Questioning

In Michael Chiles’ latest book Powerful Questioning, he examines the reasons behind the questions we ask and reveals the power of asking the right questions, in the right way, at the right time.

This one-pager summarises some of his most influential ideas.

Follow Michael on Twitter @m_chiles

Pre-order the book here.

Defining Excellence

Whole class feedback is a game changer for minimising workload whilst improving student outcomes. The method developed by @__codexterous is particularly effective. Andy’s blog about WCF can be found here.

Think, Pair, Share

Poster summarising the Think, Pair, Share technique based on the work of Jamie Clark and blog posts by Tom Sherrington and InnerDrive.

Making Every Lesson Count (Cartoon Version)

Making Every Lesson Count by Andy Tharby and Shaun Allison still remains one of my top edu-books of all time. It’s a practical & accessible book based on 6 principles of great teaching. Check out one-page overview!