Welcome to my page for new and improved SLOP booklets for Physics GCSE. We do AQA Trilogy but most of the content is applicable for all boards. These booklets are free to download – I hope they are useful. For a great blog on teaching using booklets, see Adam Boxer’s blog here. For more on why... Continue Reading →
Welcome to my page for new and improved SLOP booklets for Physics GCSE. We do AQA but most of the content is applicable for all boards. These booklets are free to download - I hope they are useful. For a great blog on teaching using booklets, see Adam Boxer's blog here. For more on why... Continue Reading →
What do we mean by curriculum? And why is curriculum so important? How should curriculum planning and execution be informed by cognitive science? These are, in my opinion, questions of the utmost importance. What do we mean by curriculum? Curriculum is the substance of what is taught. It is the things we want students to... Continue Reading →
Knowledge is wonderful. It is also incredibly complicated. This should not surprise us. The knowledge held in our disciplines is the product of hundreds, thousands of years of work, carried out by the most complex objects in the known universe: humans. One of the ways of getting at knowledge, of analysing it to make it... Continue Reading →
Something is happening in the teaching profession. People are bounding into work, buzzing about what they read on Twitter last night. People are asking "what's the evidence for this?" And they are finding it out, or finding out its absence. People are giving up their Saturdays to go to conferences. Actually that's not quite right.... Continue Reading →
If you work in a state school, like I do, there's a lot to make you angry when you visit a private school. Not angry at the students or the staff, but angry at the inequality. The grounds: vast expanses of landscaped rolling lawns, majestic trees, and sweeping paths. A bit different to the quad... Continue Reading →
The Au people are a civilisation in another world. If you visit them, they will show you their gold. Long ago, the Au began working gold into objects of beauty. Every time they asked a question about their world and found an answer, they shaped gold into exquisite relief, engraving, and filigree to record their... Continue Reading →
This post has been agreed by several teachers and is shared across several blog sites. In the last couple of years, we have openly expressed concern at the approaches taken by Tes Education Resources to plagiarism and copyright violation, theft of resources, and the selling of resources that violate copyright. This is not a blogpost intended to... Continue Reading →
Do you dream about curriculum? I do. I dream and I can see the web of knowledge, and it's the most beautiful thing. I can see how we touch the universe through our subjects, and my heart soars. Wherever I look, I see core, hinterland, narrative, organisation, memory, and sequences. If you're going for a... Continue Reading →
