I was looking for a new way of kicking off the year 12 AS British History course which I teach, when I remembered an interview I’d read somewhere, by someone, saying something about the 1780s (the start of the course). After some Googling [1. First time I’ve really had to think about what search terms […]
Databases starter
Kicking off the year 9 ICT scheme of work with databases, and I wanted a starter that didn’t involve people sat around answering quick fire questions. So, I created the following headers, each on an A4 sheet – ID No, first name, second name, favourite colour. I then printed 5 A4 sheets, one each with […]
P4C
I tried out some P4C (Philosophy for Children) last year and was very impressed with the response. I want to do it more widely and more regularly this year, but want to deal with a couple of niggles I had about how I did it last year. Luckly, I work with the wonderful Peter Llewellyn […]
Oh my life. It works!
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 […]