I introduced my year 8 class to their first PBL style project on Friday – we’re going to be working together to build a museum style exhibition on life in Tudor Wales. I started by explaining that I was going on a mystery holiday and wanted some help as I could ask 5 questions to […]
Rebooting my teaching – index
My original plan had been to drip feed these posts out. Originally last week, then next. But who am I kidding? Something will happen and I’ll be sat here next week with them still in draft. So, they’re all out, and linked in below, as well as some other resources I’m building as I go. This post […]
Rebooting my teaching: What?
For this next post exploring my plans to reboot my teaching I thought I’d try and put a bit more flesh on the bones of some of things I’m going to try out this year. The first thing to say is all of this is liable to change based on feedback and experience. These are […]
Rebooting my teaching – How?
In the last post I looked at the background to the reasons to my decision to reboot my teaching. In this one I’m going to explain a little more about how I’m going to be changing my teaching.The first thing to accept is that as grand as I may be making this out to be […]
Rebooting my teaching – Why?
In this last post I explained that my plan is to reboot my teaching this year. In this post, I’d like to explain some of the reasons why, and some of the factors that have lead to me to this conclusion. Long Term I suspect part of this whole thing may be down to the […]
Rebooting my teaching – Introduction
One of the things I love about teaching is that you never finish learning. Every day, every year, there’s a new challenge to be faced. However, for much of last year I started to feel a dissatisfaction rooted in the fact that the items I felt were next on my “list of things to change […]
Facelift
A time for a quick blog facelift I think. WARNING. GEEKINESS FOLLOWS I’ve switched to the Fiver theme and unusually for me I’ve left it virtually as it came out of the box. The only thing I’ve changed is used this trick (scroll to post #5) to stop WordPress from showing the word ‘Pages’ if […]
The elephant in the corner of the education system
Checking through Twitter earlier I noticed the wave of indignation that normally indicates a TV appearance by English Education Secretary Michael Gove, and lo and behold he had been holding forth on the Andrew Marr show on various topics, including the forthcoming teachers strike. But it wasn’t that that got me thinking, so much as […]
Communism vs Capitalism for yr 9
Trying to introduce the ideas of Communism and Capitalism to students can be tricky, but necessary if you’re going to try and teach the Cold War. I’d got the idea of getting students to work out how much money they had in their pockets, and how they would be affected by a switch to communism […]
Purpos/ed – My year 7 form on the future of education!
Being bogged down first in coursework and then in the run up to our inspection I didn’t sign up to take part in either of the first two purpos/ed campaigns, although I did follow them all with interest. For anyone who doesn’t know, purpos/ed is a grassroots movement talking about the purpose of education in […]