Caught this in a tweet from @isalyian tonight and found myself wanting to share this much further. The always brilliant Dylan Wiliam on the future of jobs, schools and how we get the best from teachers. Although it’s a US talk many of the messages apply equally here. You can also view the slides that […]
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 […]
What the Minister Saw
Last month Olchfa was visited by Leighton Andrews, Minister for Education in the Welsh Government, as part of a visit to Swansea to see how technology is being used in teaching and learning. As part of that visit, he dropped in to my room for a few minutes to see the kind of things we’ve […]
Metacognition images
Looking for images on Flickr to use for my new metacognition posters, I came across these three images by Darren Kuropatwa that I thought were worth sharing. I’m likely to use these when talking about this concept with PGCE students and others. Click the images to take you to the relevant pages on Flickr.
Plenary questions
I want my students to get used to reflecting on their learning, so I’m going to produce a series of posters with key plenary questions on them which can go on display and I can regularly refer to. So far I’ve got: Three things you’ve learned this lesson What was the most effective way you […]
T&L lunchtimes
Talking to some colleagues at school recently we were reflecting how there were less opportunities than there had been in the past to get together with colleagues from across the school and share ideas around teaching and learning. So, rather than cursing the darkness, I lit a candle! Having spoken to the Assistant Head we […]
Reboot reflection – mid point
I’ve got a while pile of half finished blog posts I had hoped to finish during half term week, but with the failure of the school servers at county halls, it’s knocked out our access to Google Apps as well, so I can’t get to them! Instead, I’ve spent a bit of time reflecting on […]
Forgetting my big idea (or How I made my GTA video)
I’ve traditionally been suspicious of any kind of programme linked to one specific platform. I had reservations about taking part in the NGfL Cymru Innovative Education Forum as it was a Microsoft only affair (but did it anyway!), but after hearing Ian Addison talk at at Teachmeet about the Google Teacher Academy I decided that […]
50 question challenge
I’ve been playing around with some of the opportunities for collaborate learning through Google Docs. I created this revision lesson for Yr 12 to fulfil several criteria. Firstly I wanted a student led overview lesson. Secondly I wanted that lesson to give me some feedback on areas of misunderstanding. Thirdly I wanted to be able to […]