My own strategies, ideas, plans, suggestions policies that didnt make the grade and possibly those put forward by colleagues, media, twitter and more.
I don’t mean the class got angry…. this was my first attempt at reverse instruction. Year 7 are reading the Ballad of Charlotte Dymond. We had covered the background to the case in small groups through a jigsawed approach, presenting …
It has taken until 9pm this evening to realise that I we missed an a powerful opportunity ‘capture success’ and raise student expectations this afternoon at school. We held an assembly for the Year 11 students, collecting their early entry …
The 7a to Hillsborough The first lesson of a new scheme of work. A shiny new Year 7 Scheme of Work and new topic, Narrative Poetry. We had organised a few students transfers and it was on with the work. …
YouTube offers our 2 year a wealth of content. Having shown him the Chipmunks he has gone on to explore and store a library of Simon’s Cat (useful for leftfield lesson starters) and various Disney clips, interestingly though the language …
It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something. Ornette Coleman [qr_code_display]
If you are in education and you have not yet seen, watched, heard or read any of Prof Dylan Williams work then get over to the SSAT National Conference website and watch his keynote. Following the conference my RSS feed …
Yesterday, I received the disappointing news that Hamble College had not been accepted to Microsoft’s Innovative Schools programme for 2011. It was perhaps more disappointing, given the effort put into the application. Given the opportunity to ask questions, I asked. …
Mobile blogging has been stalled since a WordPress iOS 2.6.1 update left me unable to post from my phone. That said, it also brought a range of new tantalising new features that I eagerly want to test out this academic …
