FutureLearn aims to help everyone fulfil their potential in a changing world, by transforming access to education. FutureLearn is an amazing learning repository. Built upon a beautifully clean, beautifully simple learning platform, FutureLearn presents high quality content and discussion to facilitate learning, …
This week the RSA delivered another fantastic hour of learning, this time with Daniel Coyle – The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups. Daniel Coyle is the New York Times bestselling author. I first bumped into Coyle when I read “Lance Armstrong’s War,” …
For a while now, I have been wrestling with my own thoughts on the interaction challenge and motivation. In relfecting, I also considered the importance of pacing. Teaching is so messy, these three variants just the tip of the pedagogical …
This time last summer, one of the final jobs I completed was to share a student summer challenge. It was my version of the TES post, that borrowed from an American teacher’s impassioned post. A collection of optional tasks. The …
Like many, I drive to work in the morning. I leave before the traffic gets too heavy. I use the drive to think, reflect, plan and learn. Recently I have been driving to work with Gayle Allen. Not in person, obviously, …
Grading individual lessons has been an unhelpful distraction – 4 June 2014 By June, The Wellington Academy were one series into their non-graded, peer led, lesson learning observations performance review cycle. A further four months on, we have no intention of returning to grades. …
Just a quick sign post. It is a long summer break is the USA. As the America teens are running out of enthusiasm for pretty much everything, Google has stepped up and this week released a virtual Camp Google (ending early August) aimed …
As teachers we are also on the lookout for inspiring self development comments. I don’t think they come much better than this. The legendary cellist Pablo Casals was asked why he continued to practice at age 90. “Because I think I’m …
