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How to Engage the Whole Class, Not Just the Hands Up
Practical techniques so that everyone in the lesson thinks and answers: question before name, wait time, everyone answering at once, turn and talk, coming back to a student who didn't answer, and games where every student plays.
Read more →Feedback to Students: What to Say So They Actually Use It
How to give students feedback that changes their next piece of work: specific, about the task, with a next step and time to act on it. Spoken responses to answers, written comments and peer feedback.
Read more →Group Sort: Teaching Students to Classify, Not Just List
How to use Group sort in any subject: choosing groups and items, playing with the whole class, and why the borderline items are the most valuable part of the game.
Read more →Higher-Order Questions in Class: Asking So Students Think
How to move from "what?" and "when?" questions to "why?", "what if?" and "prove it": ready question stems, wait time, follow-up questions, and planning two or three key questions per lesson.
Read more →Live Games in Class: A Quiz the Whole Class Answers
How to host a live game: questions on the projector, students answer on their phones via a PIN or QR code, and after each question everyone sees how the answers split. Settings, ways to run it, and how to use the report.
Read more →Match Up in Class: How to Run It Without Losing Pace
A practical guide to the Match up template: which pairs to choose, how many to put on a page, and how to play it with the whole class, in pairs and at home.
Read more →Quizzes in Class: Writing Questions That Check Understanding
How to build a quiz that shows what your class understood, not just what it memorised: rules for questions and wrong options, settings, and three ways to run it.
Read more →How to Review Your Own Lesson Without the Stress
A step-by-step way to look at your own lesson from the outside: what to record, what to listen for, how to pick one step for the next lesson, and how to avoid drowning in self-criticism.
Read more →Spin the Wheel in Class: Fair Random Picks and More
Six ways to use Spin the wheel in a lesson: choosing who answers, speaking topics, tasks, questions with answers. Settings and tips so the wheel serves the lesson.
Read more →Unjumble: Word Order Without Drilling Rules
Using the Unjumble template in language lessons: which sentences to choose, how to play with the whole class, and how to turn the game into a conversation about grammar.
Read more →How to Analyze a Lesson with AI
A step-by-step guide to uploading and analyzing lessons on the Etodist platform — from recording to a complete report with metrics and recommendations.
Read more →Bloom's Taxonomy in Modern Education
How Bloom's Taxonomy helps teachers structure lessons from simple to complex, and why AI analysis uses this framework to evaluate teaching quality.
Read more →Platform Update: 25 Pedagogical Metrics
We added 15 new pedagogical metrics to the existing 10 — Etodist now analyzes lessons across 25 criteria based on leading educational theories.
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