Applying teaching strategied, techniques and ideas.
Rubrics and criterion-referenced assessment regularly contribute to teaching and learning and more recently to the assessment of the quality of teaching. Used effectively, rubrics provide clear and objective feedback to learners/teachers about their strengths and weaknesses relative to specific learning/performance …
Teens wearing a single ear bud, teens sharing ear buds, using both ear buds… simply the prevalence of teens listening to something, whilst doing something else, is now culture. It is why quite a few teens and pupils generally, are …
Having completed a short course on Chat GPT, I have been experimenting with various prompts designed to impersonate me – the teacher. The focus had been to explore “PREPARE” prompts designed to help pupils secure their understanding of a previous …
I first used “Pegasus Mail” at Tauntons College twenty years ago. I have been writing emails ever since and never heard of BLUF. BLUF stands for “Bottom Line Up Front.” It’s a communication strategy that puts the most important information …
The timeless struggles of coaxing pupils to get started on their revision (or homework). This year, as every year, for the past twenty-five years as a teacher, I have been encouraging pupils to get started. This year, I have a …
My involvement with “Coaching young people,” was incidental. It arose from a conversation with a trusted parent and led to a Coaching engagement with their son. Their confidence in my Coaching leading to a number of referrals and here we are. …
The study investigates the effectiveness of retrieval-based concept mapping as a learning activity for high school students, (14-18 year olds). That this learning activity promotes the construction of coherent mental representations of to-be-learned materials. Students received concept mapping training in …
I am forever re-thinking about the interplay of cognitive architecture, working memory and curriculum/instructional design, even more so when preparing schemes of learning at half-term. However, more recently, rather than thinking about what new information needs to be taught, I …
