Two free tools
Two free tools. If you use and love the ‘5 minute planner,’ keep an eye out for the 5 period, 5 minute (or should that now read 25 minute day planner) planner and follow @dandesignthink while you are at it. Dan’s a very …
Drive to the finish line #2
Hard Facts An afternoon crunching numbers on the Office for National Statistics gives you the hard facts of the value of GCSEs qualifications. Based on hourly pay differences, year differences and an inflated 50 year work life, examples were contextualised and …
Prof Bill Lucas #TLAB13
Young people are actors in their own drama. Afternoon all, here for Proj Bill Lucas, which starts with a fantastic card trick, a word puzzle and a visual puzzle that reveals that we are wired to respond with pre-learnt responses. The …
David Didau doesn’t do…
I feel that the saturation of poetry teaching has left its mark – my next tattoo will most like be ‘OARSIM’ – onomatopoeia, alliteration, rhyme and rhythm, simile, imagery and metaphor. Hence David Didau, doesn’t do… dull. David doesn’t do ‘activities’ …
#TLAB13 Keynote
After a warm welcome and very pleasant evening with the veritable Dr Nick Dennis at Berkenstand School – @zoeross19 and we have both decided we need a very strong coffee to kick start, what is hoping to be, a fantastic day …
The boy who harnessed the wind, again
Back in Sept 09 I wrote about a fantastic learning,engineering and personal endeavour achievement. The story of William Kamkwamba. I know his story had a profound impact on a wide and diverse community of educators, politicians, engineers, ecologists, agriculturists and more. …
Reality Triptico
Next on the Triptico Plus experiment list, the Task Generator. It works really well following on from the ‘Student Group’ tool complete with all new ‘student star learners.’ Basically groups with defined student leaders. Teaching using a jigsawing strategy (divide and conquer), I added …
Poem battle
We have been poetry battlin’ (not slammin) with Year 7 with the help of Triptico Student Selector Plus. That is the beauty of Triptico, it is so very simple, so very effective. I keep saying it, ‘Triptico – just add …