Quiz Cards…. resource overload…
QUIZ CARDS…. This was another cooperative learning strategy that I have come across – trading cards or quiz cards. It was this strategy that I used to test cooperative learning in my classroom trial...
View ArticleTeacher Learning via Twitter Part 2
So after being left with a series of questions and problems at the end of research paper two (handed in, in May) I was trying to solve the methodological issues of exactly how to capture informal...
View ArticlePlanning with SOLO taxonomy
SOLO taxonomy has been a real help in my teaching and planning, simply because I no longer have to think in levels or grades. That is not to say that they do not have their place but referring to the...
View ArticleLate night musings… with tea and chocolate!
Its late, and I can’t sleep.. the holiday body clock has shifted so I’m awake late and sleep late and this has left me time to think on my Twitter day with a cup of tea and chocolate. I uploaded the...
View ArticleQuiz Cards… make your own
Many people asked for the template to make your own quiz cards – particularly important if you are not a science teacher. Top tips Try and phrase them as close to the exam or test type questions as...
View ArticleTeaching – Research – its not an either/or
I’m a teacher AND a researcher. There I’ve said it – I’m not an academic in an institution carrying out research nor am I a teacher in a classroom that just ignores what is written about teaching. I am...
View ArticleFoldable Fun!
Ok – this post has been a long time in coming, but since Pedagoo Sunshine more and more have been asking about foldables… I came across them via @KDWScience at the ASE Conference. I wasn’t fortunate to...
View ArticleThe journey to outstanding part 1
It has taken a long time… 17 years in fact, to get a lesson observation that has been graded outstanding. In that time I have seen many, many changes; changes to the observation grids, classifications,...
View ArticleThe journey to outstanding – part 2
Step 5 – relationships, routines and rituals – @Beetlebug1 @PivotalPaul I said in the last post that I didn’t like this class and it showed… well i know relationships are important and I had struggled...
View ArticleThis much I know about an EdD…
We have just come to the end of our taught sessions on our EdD course and I started to reflect on how far I’ve come in the past 2 years bearing in mind I’ve still got 4 years to go. As usually its...
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