Mark. Plan. Teach.: Save time. Reduce workload. Impact learning.

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From Chile to Kenya and Edinburgh to East London, Mark Plan Teach influences how many schools now approach teaching and learning. Bloomsbury Education is thrilled to announce that they will publish the new book from best-selling author Ross Morrison McGill aka @TeacherToolkit in September 2017.

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In a landscape dominated with political hogwash, where teachers in England continue to work the longest hours and be paid one of the lowest salaries in OECD countries, teachers’ workload is at record levels. Despite increasing concerns, the government still has no coherent strategy for recruitment, retention or workload. Teachers are craving pragmatic ideas that work, sourcing strategies – which have the least fuss and greatest impact – to help them survive and thrive in the classroom! I am delighted to publish my third book which builds upon current debate in education; that all teachers work closely with strategies that are supported by evidence. In Mark Plan Teach I add a psychological perspective explaining why teachers do the things they do; to extrapolate what works and how teachers can understand, the cognitive and emotional processes of students.

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The ideas have been tried and tested and are supported by evidence. Mark. Plan. Teach. shows how each stage of the teaching process informs the next, building a cyclical framework that underpins everything that teachers do. With teachers' workload at record levels and teacher recruitment and retention the number one issue in education, ideas that really work and will help teachers not only survive but thrive in the classroom are in demand. Every idea in Mark. Plan. Teach. can be implemented by all primary and secondary teachers at any stage of their career and will genuinely improve practice. The ideas have been tried and tested and are supported by evidence that explains why they work, including current educational research and psychological insights from Dr Tim O'Brien, leading psychologist and Visiting Fellow at UCL Institute of Education. Cutting straight to the heart of teacher workload, this book is full of provocative questions and range of classroom ideas and leadership strategies to demonstrate why teachers should do less, not more, to become truly effective. Sharing Mark Plan Teach with 30,000 teachers, I often advocated that teaching is a team sport. Experienced teachers must help newer teachers solve complex, classroom problems.

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Some of the issues outlined above are a consequence of the “chunked, bite-sized” approach that is taken throughout the book. On the whole, this is a strength: it makes it very usable as a reference guide. It’s certainly helpful for a novice teacher who is trying to navigate their way through the myriad issues they need to consider as they get to grips with effective classroom practice. Fully updated edition of Ross Morrison McGill's bestselling Mark. Plan. Teach., now complete with a visual guide to the key ideas, illustrated by Oliver Caviglioli.

Thomas Raine finds this book is a handy repository of what we know about effective teaching, with a relentless focus on reducing workload McGillinsists that teaching boils down to three activitiesthatmustbeperformedwell–marking, planningandteaching. Here, heoffersten ideasto improvetheeffectiveness and efficiencyof each,withhelpful,accessible summaries of the researchunderpinninghisproposals.