 Hello everyone, this is Ross at Teacher Talkit. This is idea number four in a series of thirty videos that I'm publishing to help teachers through the summer term. My background is in design and having looked at design theory as part of my degree and part of my training, we looked at the KISS analogy which comes from the military arm in the US, keep it simple, stupid. I know education is full of acronyms, but one that I've evolved from the KISS approach in design is kind of looking at how I would deliver teacher clarity or direct instruction or being very clear and precise about what I want the students to learn rather than get distracted with silly questions in class that might not necessarily be linked to learning. So another acronym, please forgive me, but this one might prove useful, is MINT, M-I-N-T. M stands for materials, I stands for in or out of seats, N stands for noise level and T stands for time. And how you could demo this in class in terms of your instructions, chunking those throughout the lesson would be for materials. Right students, here is a worksheet, you need to be in your seats, you are working at a quiet conversation noise level with your partners, you've got five minutes and I'll give you a one minute reminder at the end. Off you go. If we then ask for any questions, we then lose the impact of our instruction. Students get on with the activity, you ask for any hands up to clarify any misconceptions and then you work the classroom. And that I believe that can work in any situation. I think it's a particularly good strategy for being very clear, being very precise and focusing on activity, learning different episodes in class. So give it a try, type in MINT on teachertoolkit.co.uk for more information and thanks for watching.