Questions about the Explaining Well poster

What’s on the Explaining Well poster?

10 entries in 2 groups. An explanation is designed, not improvised, however fluent the teacher. Build it from: A concrete example before the abstraction, Familiar knowledge as the s…; Avoid: Two new ideas explained at once, Talking over a diagram pupils are reading, Ta…. Dual coding: words spoken alongside a picture help. Words spoken alongside the same words in text compete for the same channel.

Who is the Explaining Well poster for?

Explaining Well belongs to the Education section rather than to a school year, because humanities is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning classroom practice can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.

When should you use the Explaining Well poster?

Use it when planning the part of the lesson where you do the talking. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Explaining Well belongs on the wall where that humanities work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Explaining Well?

A Behaviour System, Checking Understanding and Cutting Load In A Lesson sit alongside Explaining Well in the Education section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.A Behaviour SystemChecking UnderstandingCutting Load In A Lesson

Is the Explaining Well poster free to download and print?

Yes. Explaining Well downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Education section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence

What size does the Explaining Well poster print at?

Explaining Well is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Explaining Well loses nothing.Printing guide