Applying teaching strategied, techniques and ideas.
Follow the NCSL ‘Effective Influencing’ course I raced back to school for parents evening. Having listened to the parents and carer at our parent forum group I made two conscious changes to the way I operated. First, I stated that …
Just a short post to highlight a new term I encountered yesterday when a student relayed their account of an incident in class. A confrontation occurred when one student reacted rather vicisfously to be called a neek. Neek: A cross between a Nerd …
One of the benefits to observing lessons is that this old dog, still gets to learn new tricks. Like all good mavens, I collect these and share them. Like the 54 Ways to introduce a Learning Objective Google Doc. This …
Involved in interviewing today I heard a lot about values. Values about oneself as a teacher and about education as a system. Interestingly, I did not hear much about the values we try to imaprt onto our students. This may …
I wrote about this fantastic transmedia website for IE9 a couple of weeks ago. The students really seemed to enjoy it too and the writing task inherent within the website certainly challenged my class. In all honesty, it may have …
Sent with IFTTT Here is a combination of Prezi lesson, Triptico Slow App and self help or self taught lesson on slow writing. It was made for o2learn although the audio here is a little better than the audio on …
Thank you for all the fab feedback on Slow Writing. Most of the recognistion really belongs to David Didau and David Riley. I am just the maven that stole the idea from one David and gave it to the other. …
It started with David Didau’s (@learningspy) blog post. BIF! Then onto David Riley (@David_Triptico), Triptico creator and education app designer. BAM! (The man’s talent are for hire BTW.) Then it was back to my Year 8 ‘Creative Writing’ class for …
