Applying teaching strategied, techniques and ideas.
Listening to Katie Broadribb (AST Wildern School) at the IT Strategy Seminar we were exposed to a wide range of learning opportunities exploiting technology within a technology mature, supportive and underwritten setting. All the major players made an appearance, FB, …
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. – Edward Morgan Forster [qr_code_display]
This morning I asked an AQA examiner two simple questions. @KristianStill: @elliejcox as an AQA marker – best tweet tip? And most common writing pitfall to avoid? Thanks? Ellie duly replied. @elliejcox: @KristianStill Answer the question and use key words …
Follow the NCSL ‘Effective Influencing’ course I raced back to school for parents evening. Having listened to the parents and carer at our parent forum group I made two conscious changes to the way I operated. First, I stated that …
Just a short post to highlight a new term I encountered yesterday when a student relayed their account of an incident in class. A confrontation occurred when one student reacted rather vicisfously to be called a neek. Neek: A cross between a Nerd …
One of the benefits to observing lessons is that this old dog, still gets to learn new tricks. Like all good mavens, I collect these and share them. Like the 54 Ways to introduce a Learning Objective Google Doc. This …
Involved in interviewing today I heard a lot about values. Values about oneself as a teacher and about education as a system. Interestingly, I did not hear much about the values we try to imaprt onto our students. This may …
I wrote about this fantastic transmedia website for IE9 a couple of weeks ago. The students really seemed to enjoy it too and the writing task inherent within the website certainly challenged my class. In all honesty, it may have …
