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What is slow teaching? Depth over breadth in the classroom

What if we sought to put greater depth and therefore less breadth into our teaching, being clearer about and taking more time over key concepts and making our curriculum planning more effective? Matt Bromley calls this ‘slow teaching’...


In my key stage 3 English lessons this term, I have been experimenting with what I call “slow teaching”. I use the qualifier “what I call” not in some comedic Miranda-esque style, but because there may be an established phenomenon called “slow teaching” which carries with it a fixed set of characteristics or rules.

Point of fact, a quick internet search of the term “slow teaching” took me first to a 2018 book of that name by Jamie Thom which says that slow teaching is “a thoughtful exploration of how slowing down in all aspects of education can lead to improved student outcomes”.

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