Jamie Clark
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Head of Professional Growth | English Teacher | 📘📗 Best Selling Author of Teaching One-Pagers 1 & 2 | ⚗️DistillED 5-Minute Email | Information Designer | Dad
Perth, Western Australia
Joined June 2009
💚 Teaching One-Pagers Volume 2 is out TODAY—exactly one year after the first. Book 2 has been another labour of love, distilling edu-research and important ideas into practical, visual summaries for busy teachers. Huge thanks to everyone who’s supported my work—you are the
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🎈Turning the big 4-0 today! To celebrate, I’m giving you 40% off your first month/year of ⚗️DistillED+—packed with evidence-informed resources and practical tools for busy teachers and PD leads… Offer ends 13 July! 🎉. LINK
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RT @XpatEducator: 🎯 EXPLICIT INSTRUCTION! This week’s edition of ⚗️DistillED unpacks an 8-step lesson sequence for breaking learning into c….
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🗞️ This week’s edition also includes a complete set of resources to support CPD on explicit instruction:. • A3 printable one-page guide.• Strategy checklist.• PowerPoint presentation slides. Available for ⚗️DistillED+ members.
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🎯 EXPLICIT INSTRUCTION! This week’s edition of ⚗️DistillED unpacks an 8-step lesson sequence for breaking learning into clear, manageable steps to reduce cognitive load and build fluency. As always, there’s a free, practical download to help you put it into action. 📧 READ:
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👾 POOR PROXIES FOR LEARNING! Just because students are busy, engaged, or writing lots, doesn’t mean they’re learning. Learning happens when students have to think hard! This guide explores poor proxies for learning highlighted by @ProfCoe and what to do instead. ⚗️ Read more
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RT @XpatEducator: 👇 Since introducing these one-pagers in my school in 2022, I’ve seen teachers’ engagement with evidence informed ideas sk….
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RT @XpatEducator: 🏗️ Scaffolding Think, Pair, Share can help facilitate deep discussions and drive thinking from ALL students. This handy r….
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RT @XpatEducator: CPD! Teaching One-Pagers Volume 1 contains 55+ concise, evidence-informed visual summaries of key educational ideas, desi….
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RT @SoLInTheWild: How do I keep research-based instructional strategies grounded in the science of learning present in my mind when plannin….
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RT @XpatEducator: 🗓️ These are the very first A4 ‘one-pagers’ I posted back in 2022! They were incredibly well received at the time and got….
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CPD! Teaching One-Pagers Volume 1 contains 55+ concise, evidence-informed visual summaries of key educational ideas, designed to support school PD. Check out these Companion Workshops:. 💻 32 customisable slide decks.📄 66 PDF scaffolds and resources .👣 30 step-by-step
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🗓️ These are the very first A4 ‘one-pagers’ I posted back in 2022! They were incredibly well received at the time and got more attention than I expected. Great to see how much this idea has grown!📘📗 More to come!. 📥 You can still download the OG here:.
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The five-step process below is a useful starting point when you’re ready to make wait time an intentional part of your classroom practice!
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Research also highlights the power of Wait Time 2—the pause after a student finishes answering. This short, deliberate silence gives the student space to elaborate on their ideas, clarify their thinking, or add detail without feeling rushed. It also allows other students time to.
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As we know, retrieval practice—the act of generating an answer to a question—helps strengthen memory and improve long-term retention. When we rush the time students have to retrieve information, we effectively cut short this valuable learning opportunity.
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Research on wait time revealed that when teachers pause for at least three seconds after asking a question, classroom interactions and learning outcomes improved significantly. The study found:. → Responses often doubled in length .→ The number of questions increased.
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Building in wait time means students are less likely to remain silent, default to saying “I don’t know,” or panic and guess. Instead, they have the opportunity to construct more thoughtful responses.
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On average, teachers wait only about 1.5 seconds before taking answers to their questions. The graphic below shows what happens when a teacher calls upon a student too soon compared to giving students extended thinking time.
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This week’s edition of ⚗️DistillED is about Wait Time—the simple strategy of pausing after asking a question to give students space to think… 🧵.
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📑 NEW ONE-PAGE GUIDES! These new A3 evidence-informed guides summarise three important aspects central to effective classroom practice:. 📈 Building Motivation.🎯 Adaptive Teaching .🗣️ Clear Explanations . Grab them for FREE by subscribing and referring fellow teachers to the
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