This is the final of ten posts that develop some of the ideas I mentioned in my presentation at TMClevedon — This still sounds wrong somehow, doesn’t it – surely we should be encouraging success in our schools, not failure? Well, yes…. But, if we praise success above all else we can help develop a […]
Ten things #9 – Project Based Learning
This is the ninth of ten posts that build on my talk at TMClevedon last month — I’ve written before about Project Based Learning and the lightbulb that went on in my head when I first read about it. Like any idea it’s easy to do badly, and as David Didau pointed out, we must […]
Ten things #8 – No hands up
This is the eighth of the ‘ten things’ I discussed in my talk at TMClevedon — This was one I’d read about but wasn’t much taken with, until I saw the Classroom Experiment. And what I saw in those classrooms, with one or two students dominating, suddenly looked dangerously like my classroom. So, I’m going back […]
Ten things #7 – Stop giving grades
This is the seventh of the ‘ten things’ I discussed in my talk at TMClevedon —- One of the most shocking things for me from the ‘Inside the Black Box’ research was the impact that adding a grade to a piece of work had. Not only did it lead to 0% increase, it also reduced the […]
Ten things #6 – Success Criteria
This is the sixth of the ‘ten things’ I discussed in my talk at TMClevedon — Part of the effective feedback loop means that not only do students know what they’re doing well / not so well, but where they are in terms of their learning and how they can take the next step. One of […]
Ten things #4 – Make videos
The fourth idea I shared at my presentation from TMClevedon was to make videos. It has never been easier to make videos and then get them online. I’m going to cover a few quick ideas. 1. Make videos of student work using something like Animoto as a way of showing off what students have produced […]
ten things… #3 Write blogs
It’s never been easier to start your own blog, with a range of free tools out there. Blogger still seems to be a popular one, as is posterous which has the advantage of allowing you to blog by email. I use WordPress as a blogging platform, which has a few more bells and whistles than […]
Ten things… #2 – Read blogs
Back in the old days (you know, before Twitter) I read blogs from teachers around the world to get ideas. I suspect this is the fault of Doug Belshaw who I ‘knew’ through the school history.co.uk teachers forum. He started blogging, I started reading. He blogged about other people, so I started reading their blogs […]
Ten things… #1 – Twitter
This is the first of ten posts, building on my list of ten things I learned from rebooting my teaching that I presented at Teachmeet Clevedon. You can actually find a much better explanation of why you should bother with Twitter in this 5 minute talk from David Gale from the Teachmeet! —- Issac Newton […]
Reflection on TMClevedon
EDITED 12.30pm to add more links One more quick post before I try and get some sleep – because if I don’t get this written now I suspect it will join that great other pile of half written blog posts floating around various sticky notes and rattling around bits of my brain. TMClevedon was all […]