Applying teaching strategied, techniques and ideas.
If you are going to have someone ask Pasi Sahlberg questions about education, there are few more qualified than John Hattie. Hattie: What’s it like to be in the top five education league tables? Pasi Sahlberg: ….. it’s windy, it’s …
Paul Benson dropped me a very kind tweet and email to say thank you for the CI Writing page. The Challenge and Inspire page is collection of stories, an odd mix of coaching, philosophy and life fables I have bumped into …
Catalytics, real time response systems. Not marking and feeding back. Teaching and responding in the now. Understoodit provides live students feedback via a connected device to tell their teachers when they are confused and when they understand a lesson. Teachers …
The Google Cultural Institute helps preserve and promote culture online. If you are a historian or a citizenship teacher, you can not afford to miss this mesmeric resource. Simply stunning. I showed our newly appointed history teacher the resource briefly …
Our Director of Progress gave a strong performance to an unsettled upper school audience this week, using the story of Felix Baumgartner to underline the importance of purpose and self direction. This evening, whilst listening to the television, I worked-up …
Jim Kouzes (Dean’s Executive Professor of Leadership, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University) said nearly two million people had taken their 360-degree feedback tool. The statement that consistently receives the lowest rating is, “Asks for feedback on how his/her …
Again, with my parallel group we explored themes with ThinkLink (Chapters 7, 8 and 9). This time, the class clearly defined the themes, and with clustered a group of blue theme hexagon to separate out the themes more effectively. This …
Today we used the very versatile thinklink as a recording tool to highlight the themes of friendship that students could recall from reading chapters 1-6 from War Horse. We continued to use the same canvas as a back channel for …
