Is my teaching excellent? (part 2)
When I wrote part 1, I didn’t know there was going to be a part 2. However, here it is and it includes a subtle shift of emphasis. A shift from excellent or expert teachers, to excellent teaching. A shift …
Teaching
Applying teaching strategied, techniques and ideas.
What every teacher needs to know about assessment (Q2)
The first post, covered the first half of “What every teacher needs to know about assessment.” Unsurprisingly, this post covers the second half. What practices schools should do ‘more‘ or ‘less’ of. What assessment practices should schools do more of, and …
What every teacher needs to know about assessment (Q1)
Introduced by Professor Stuart Kime (Director of Education at Evidence Based Education – EBE) “What every teacher needs to know about assessment,” brought together researchers and cross-phase leaders, teachers and teacher trainiers; Dr Christine Harrison (King’s College London), Phil Stock (Secondary DHT – …
#rEDKent – without getting wet
Searching the #rEDKent thread provides #rEDKent filtered content. It is content selected for re-posting. Then I filter this content a second time, what is interesting to me, or signposts to wider reading, or educationalists with contesting opinions worth following. All …
How well can teachers estimate the difficulty of a question?
Teachers are not very good at writing effective and usable assessment questions. says @ProfCoe #rEdDurham Studies typically find that unstructured judgements of the expected proportion who will get a question right typically correlate about 0.2-0.3 with the actual proportions (Bramley & …
Is my teaching excellent? (part 3)
Here is the final part of a three part series (part 1 and part 2). I didn’t intend to write a series – but here it stops. Do we need to think differently? If we never challenge dominant modes of …
Is my teaching excellent yet?
Expertise and excellence are regular talking points in our office. What does it look like? How does it feel? How do we develop it? How do we encourage / insist upon it. Last year we adopted this stance and, unashamedly …
Times table – arise centurion
M names is Kristian and I am overly interested by time tables? I first taught Year 8 Maths to a low attaining set (5), as an experienced teacher (18 years) but novice Maths teacher with just two terms notice. I …