Cognitive Apprenticeship For Transmitting Knowledge
Reading Time: 4 minutesWhat do you know about cognitive apprenticeship in the classroom?
Tag: Student
How To Approach A Level Revision
Reading Time: 2 minutesHow can students prepare for A levels?
Don’t Be Like Me, A Blunting Pencil
Reading Time: 3 minutesDid you reach your full potential at school?
Where I’ve failed as a teacher by @TeacherToolkit
Reading Time: 7 minutesThis post has been sparked off by Rachel Jones @rlj1981 who blogged on the topic of ‘pontificating about pedagogy’ in July 2013. Her post headline, “Show me the money” was an excellent article; one I wholeheartedly agree with. As a result, I have decided to share her sentiments and elaborate on the mistakes ‘I have […]
A typical Head of Technology, by @Jim1982
Reading Time: 3 minutesA typical Head of Technology no matter what their discipline loves making things. They HOD of Maths, at HVC, said to me the other day in the staff room ‘All you do in technology is have fun making things’ and my response was ‘yes you are right and we get paid for it!’
So what is #Stickability?
Reading Time: 2 minutesStickability is a term used within the notable 5 Minute Lesson Plan. I have decided to write a short post, based on the demand for clarification.
Where did we coin the word ‘classroom’? by @MarkJWarner1
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis post answers the 28th question from my TeacherToolkit Thinking page of Thunks. I posed this (Thunk) question to my colleagues and they asked their students to think about it too. 7.30am: Friday morning, the last Friday before half-term, I sent a (dreaded!) ‘all staff’ email.
@ClassroomCarrot is used in my classroom to reward student progress, by @TeacherToolkit
Reading Time: 7 minutes“The stickers at that time were black and white, a nightmare to print and (compared to today) pretty unsophisticated designs!” But as he used the stickers and saw the reaction he got – both from pupils and other teachers he showed them to – he knew he had a hit on his hands. From there, […]
To uniform or not to uniform, that is the question? by @TeacherToolkit
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis post answers the 25th question from my TeacherToolkit Thinking page of Thunks. With the start of the summer term upon us, and many schools that ‘have uniforms’ as school policy, most may contemplate a ‘summer-uniform, or at least allow student-councils to debate the issue, should the British climate decide to warm up! This particular […]
#Ofsted recognition of The #5MinPlan
Reading Time: 2 minutesYou may or may not be aware, that Ofsted inspectors do not expect to see a lesson plan – they never have(!) and it is one of the greatest myths of the teaching profession here in England and Wales – but, just wait a moment! Ofsted do expect to see evidence of a planned lesson!
Pose, Pause, Pounce, Bounce!
Reading Time: 4 minutesI’ve updated this PPPB post to allow you all to deliver effective questioning in the classroom next week!
A war of nerves? by @TeacherToolkit #SLTchat
Reading Time: 4 minutesTrying to win over the hearts and minds of potential students and parents is no easy feat – in many aspects it’s as daunting as facing the dreaded Ofsted inspector, says Ross Morrison McGill. This article features in the @ASCL_UK Leader Magazine for December 2012, here.