Curriculum Efficiencies
Step 1 Take a teacher with a passion for ICT add it to a teacher with a passion for English. Leave them to discuss the curriculum for 30 minutes to identify common areas and then ask them to be ‘creative.’ …
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Great quotes about Learning and Change Pool
Great quotes about Learning and Change Pool is a great resources for any teacher, educator, parent, but particularly those that like quotes that challenge and inspire (or indeed both). I subscribe to the Flickr feed, so updates / posters get …
Very Useful Youtube Shortcut
I am not going to take credit for this, but I did read about it on two different tech sites this week and I have tested it out. Apparently there are secret not so secret keyboard shortcuts you can use …
Ungraded?
No, not a U or #fail. Nothing so sinister. Just a puzzle in need of a solution. How to find submitted, but ungraded assignments. How to keep a track of my online marking, building up silently behind the course pages, …
Seeds, Trees and Shade
One generation plants the trees, and another gets the shade. Back on the VLE again I am afraid. I am busy writing interactive resources and setting extended learning tasks for the ‘Romeo and Juliet’ section on the VLE. Our team have been slow to adopt …
FreeRice 2.0
Moving to the English Department this academic year I was looking for a range of English learning activities, spelling tools and edugames to provide transition activities at the start or end of the lesson. This ‘need’ brought me back to …
What Makes a Good School?
Good management is the essential handmaiden to leadership What makes a good school? Written by Sir Tim Brighouse, first publish nearly 20 years ago, was my third and final loan book from the HTLC Leadership Library. A free leadership book …
Year 3000
Back in November I first wrote about my aspirations to create a secondary school class lip dub. I am not sure a Year 9 class is the best place to start, but they are a great bunch of hard working …