Applying teaching strategied, techniques and ideas.
The current system is simply not sustainable. Paul Whiteman – General secretary of the school leaders union NAHT The sharp increase in the number of children with special educational needs – particularly those with complex needs that require an education, …
For almost every tutor and pastoral leader on the planet – the use and misuse of the internet by pupils, (particularly the misuse of social media) exhausts them. There are only so many different ways we can reframe those well …
This week’s professional learning focused on the importance of a pupils mental health and wellbeing and how these two components influence a pupil’s cognitive development and learning, their physical and social health and their mental wellbeing journey through to adulthood. …
Rubrics and criterion-referenced assessment regularly contribute to teaching and learning and more recently to the assessment of the quality of teaching. Used effectively, rubrics provide clear and objective feedback to learners/teachers about their strengths and weaknesses relative to specific learning/performance …
Teens wearing a single ear bud, teens sharing ear buds, using both ear buds… simply the prevalence of teens listening to something, whilst doing something else, is now culture. It is why quite a few teens and pupils generally, are …
Having completed a short course on Chat GPT, I have been experimenting with various prompts designed to impersonate me – the teacher. The focus had been to explore “PREPARE” prompts designed to help pupils secure their understanding of a previous …
I first used “Pegasus Mail” at Tauntons College twenty years ago. I have been writing emails ever since and never heard of BLUF. BLUF stands for “Bottom Line Up Front.” It’s a communication strategy that puts the most important information …
The timeless struggles of coaxing pupils to get started on their revision (or homework). This year, as every year, for the past twenty-five years as a teacher, I have been encouraging pupils to get started. This year, I have a …
