Right. Keep this under your hats but this is my initial ideas. Would love to get a group of teachers together to work on this… Let me know if you want to be involved. CLICK HERE FOR PDF LINK … Continue reading →
It has been a week or two since my whirlwind visit to the UK. I managed to fit in a day of discovery at Clevedon School, followed by Teachmeet Clevedon and then a day at the City Academy in Easton, … Continue reading →
Quite a few tweachers have asked me why did I create the map? So I thought I’d do a quick piece on what its all about, why I did it and why I REALLY did it! Several weeks ago, … Continue reading →
I recently had to give a seminar to a group of students about the growth mindset and why we are doing our project based learning course Pebble. As always, I wanted a hook to allow their understanding to link … Continue reading →
For the skills we are learning in Pebble to be internalised, understood, reflected upon and improved, we have for several years tried to find the best way of making sure that the evidence for this is created in a way … Continue reading →
The title for this post, refers to the students first two weeks of our project based learning course, where students analyse: What is learning? What helps us learn? What skills and dispositions do we need to be effective learners? How … Continue reading →
I have designed this for my department to use as a tool to analyse what is going on in lessons, what we should be seeing if we are as good as we say we are (not just basking in our … Continue reading →
Olympic athletes are given a very tough time, excruciatingly tough at times. But every day, they get up and train to be better, everyday they reflect on their progress and push themselves to become better, faster, stronger. From first place … Continue reading →
One of the most powerful influences on a student’s passion for learning is how others notice their efforts. To notice what they have done; the hard work, the progress made, the energy used, the mistakes learnt. This is going to … Continue reading →
When students, staff and visitors walk into your school, what is the first thing they see? What about your department area? What is the purpose of display in your school and what does it say about the curriculum in … Continue reading →