Applying teaching strategied, techniques and ideas.
The Google Cultural Institute helps preserve and promote culture online. If you are a historian or a citizenship teacher, you can not afford to miss this mesmeric resource. Simply stunning. I showed our newly appointed history teacher the resource briefly …
Our Director of Progress gave a strong performance to an unsettled upper school audience this week, using the story of Felix Baumgartner to underline the importance of purpose and self direction. This evening, whilst listening to the television, I worked-up …
Jim Kouzes (Dean’s Executive Professor of Leadership, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University) said nearly two million people had taken their 360-degree feedback tool. The statement that consistently receives the lowest rating is, “Asks for feedback on how his/her …
Again, with my parallel group we explored themes with ThinkLink (Chapters 7, 8 and 9). This time, the class clearly defined the themes, and with clustered a group of blue theme hexagon to separate out the themes more effectively. This …
Today we used the very versatile thinklink as a recording tool to highlight the themes of friendship that students could recall from reading chapters 1-6 from War Horse. We continued to use the same canvas as a back channel for …
Each exam boards provides a variety of exams analysis tools that help teachers identify the questions / topics / skills in which students excelled/fell short in. These tools also provide valuable comparative information on the performance of your students / classes / cohorts on individual questions when compared …
Just to say I am curious as to where HTML5 might take our students learning, my teaching. Microsoft have teamed up with the developers of Contre Jour to bring the popular game iOS game to the Web with HTML5. It is available …
Ideas are spinning out of this fantastic paper toy modelling link www.papertoysart.com/. I picked up on it because the featured toy robot eponymous with Machinarium, an enchanting point and click puzzle adventure game, available for download and also on the iOS platform. The game …
