There has been an outbreak of the E. coli bacterium at the Bella Sophia restaurant. The local hospital has reported that patients being treated for the bug fall into two "key groups": babies and the elderly. Public health officials have called for the restaurant to improve on this situation. The restaurant owners are considering a... Continue Reading →
A quick blog post about my name. I started blogging at Christmas 2016. I’d just had a baby and was heavily reliant on edutwitter and blogs for keeping me awake during night feeds. At the time there were some outrageous claims being made about behaviour: “It’s teachers’ responsibility not SLT” and “Behaviour in most schools is... Continue Reading →
SLOP for declarative knowledge resources here Slides here Starting with a very brief history - this time three years ago, -I liked my job-. I got good observations by getting my students really engaged in practical work, and I got results by secretly telling my groups what they needed to know when no-one was watching.... Continue Reading →
I'm lucky to work in a school that invests in freeing up teacher time for the important things. We have centralised detentions, whole class feedback and we are building centralised schemes of work around our own textbooks for reading and Shed Loads Of Practice. Teacher time is too precious to be spent chasing detentions, writing... Continue Reading →
Below is the link to my article for Teachwire: What is challenge in science and how should we approach it in schools? https://www.teachwire.net/news/what-is-challenge-in-science-and-how-should-we-approach-it-in-schools
At my school we have a policy that states: Feedback must be given every 2 weeks for core subjects, every 3 week for others Feedback must include the format WWW (what went well) and EBI (even better if) Feedback must have a meaningful ACT task that moves the learner forwards Students must complete ACTs in... Continue Reading →
One of the biggest frustrations of switching on to cognitive science in teaching is the fact that despite the proliferation of technology in education, so little of it is designed to make use of cognitive science principles. Seneca is set to change that and it is so so welcome. Seneca bills itself as "a free... Continue Reading →
For a while I’ve felt like school science knowledge exists as an entity, as something more than the sum of its parts, something with characteristic structure and texture. When I was planning, deciding a route through a unit, looking at links across the curriculum….I felt like I was glimpsing a sort of web, or feeling... Continue Reading →
This is part 2 in the AFL in Science symposium. Read the rest of the series: Part 1: Introduction by Adam Boxer Part 3: Do they really get it, or are they just giving me the correct answer? by Niki Kaiser Part 4: Validity of formative assessment by Deep Ghataura Part 5: Measuring and improving... Continue Reading →
