Despite having some reservations about wanting to take on anything that took my focus away from the classroom, I am now the school’s E-learning coordinator. Part of my role will be organising CPD for those staff who have identified ICT as a performance management target. Rather than providing traditional ‘stand at the front, here’s how […]
Badges update
Last term I spoke at the Teachnocamps Bring and Brag about an idea I’d had to move the KS3 ICT lessons into an Open Badges style environment, where students where free to work through tasks and earn badges as they went. It was agreed with managers that we’d trial the idea with yr 7, but […]
Throwing a History party
I mentioned in the last post about building in a longer and deeper immersion phase at the start of my Yr 12 History course. As part of that, last week, my classes came to a History Party The activity is modelled on this Ian Dawson one, which he suggests can be used at the end […]
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. […]