Last year, I had my year 13 class create a revision wiki in the run up to their exams. It worked quite well, but it needed a bit of pump priming with some ICT room time that I just don’t have this year, and I wasn’t completely convinced that my current yr 13s would take […]
#TLAB 13 – Rebooting my teaching: Stealing ideas from primary schools and shaking up my secondary classroom
On 16th March I was lucky enough to be the excellent Teaching, Learning and Assessment conference organised by Nick Dennis at Berkhamsted school. Much to my bemusement, not only was I asked to run a session, but several people actually came along! You can see the Prezi embedded below (or click here), but I thought […]
What do I pass on?
Sometimes, if I get stuck on something, I’ll write out a blog post. They usually descend into stream of consciousness and I either find a solution or get a headache and stop. Either way I usually then delete the post. This time I’m going to publish it. Partly because it fits in with the stuff […]
Revision rebooted
When I started teaching, some of the lessons I put the most time into were revision lessons. Cards, podcasts, notes, I wrote them all. While I’m aware that there a few places (particularly in the sixth form) that perhaps I still need to provide better quality revision notes, these days revision lessons are both far […]
Ten things #10 – Embrace Failure
This is the final of ten posts that develop some of the ideas I mentioned in my presentation at TMClevedon — This still sounds wrong somehow, doesn’t it – surely we should be encouraging success in our schools, not failure? Well, yes…. But, if we praise success above all else we can help develop a […]
Back to blogging: Reflecting on a year rebooting my teaching
So my intention to write a review post about last year remained stubbornly undelivered as a new terms worth of stuff descended. I will almost certainly go back and reflect some more on last year, and do so in greater depth, but for now, a summary I felt that my teaching needed a kick up the backside. […]
The critical friend – a reply to Mark Clarkson
One of the most important things to have when you’re setting out on a new project, especially one that’s hopefully going to break new ground, is a critical friend. Someone who can look at an idea and say ‘yes, but…’. Not in a negative way, but to make sure you do really have the answers, […]
#openbadges / #digitialstudies / ICT update
I don’t think I’ve been prouder of receiving any tweet than the one that appeared yesterday from Mark Clarkson: This blog by @davestacey is making#digitalbadges harder to resist (although the scope of his vision still scares me!).http://is.gd/PY6rU9 No one’s ever been scared by the scope of my vision before! I quite like it… Anyway, I […]
Rebooting in practice #2 – Yr 8: Tudor Life
I’m conscious that I’ve been talking in the abstract in many of my ‘rebooting’ posts, so I wanted to try and be a little clearer about what I mean and how some of the things I teach have changed this year. This is the second of several posts that will hopefully outline how I’ve changed […]
Rebooting in practice #1 – Yr 8: Problems of monarchy
I’m conscious that I’ve been talking in the abstract in many of my ‘rebooting’ posts, so I wanted to try and be a little clearer about what I mean and how some of the things I teach have changed this year. This is the first of several posts that will hopefully outline how I’ve changed […]