I’m back in Berkhamsted today for the third Teaching, Learning and Assessment Conference organised by the sickeningly enthusiastic Nick Dennis. This year I’m leading a workshop session looking at effective e-learning across the curriculum. You can find the slides for the session below, and links to some of the things I talk about below that. […]
Cross curricular serendipity
Image credit: Serendipity by Laura Dantonio. CC Licensed on Flickr. ***File this under ‘when I rule the world’ One of the problems in secondary schools is that it’s hard for teachers to know what’s going on in other departments. Without that knowledge, opportunities to link learning across subjects can be missed. It struck me that […]
Wot? No blog?
Despite signing up for the second 28daysofwriting month, March has been a bit of a bust. A combination of spending some more time with the family, generally feeling tired and trying to get a whole of work stuff sorted before the end of term has left me with little oomph for blogging. The month so […]
We need more Teachmeets! (Help me make that happen)
Image credit: Bev Evans. Pic of me at what became known as TMBev – the first(?) Teachmeet in South West Wales, held in August 2010 in Pembroke Dock by the much missed Bev. I’ve had this idea in the back of my mind for a while, but *that* post by David Rogers has given me […]
Sucessful Futures – The Donaldson Review into Curriculum and Assessment in Wales
Last wednesday saw the publication of ‘Successful Futures’ – the report to the Welsh Government by Graham Donaldson, the man tasked with conducting an independent review of the curriculum and assessment arrangements in schools in Wales. This blog post started as an attempt to provide a summary of the proposals in the report, but at […]
Reflecting on #28daysofwriting
Image credit: Reflection by Astrid Westvang. CC Licensed on Flickr. In the last 28 days I have added 25 new posts to this blog (including this one). In most cases, each took 28 minutes to write, proof read, grab an image for an post. By comparison, you’d have to go back to Dec 2012 to […]