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Throwback – Thoughts on preparing lessons on a Sunday Evening in 2012
Preparing a lesson Normally I prepare my lessons after marking so that my planning responds to my marking. This weekend I have left my marking in school. Last year I aimed to plan Sunday evening. Even though I work better under pressure, I think that I am often tired...
Concept-based Learning PD
Recently we led a concept-based learning day for senior English. Here are some of our ideas, summarising Julie Stern's course. Any questions or comments, please contact in the usual way Click here to see the Presentation
fifteen Useful Ways I’ve Got Better Over the Past five Years
As I begin a new job I am inclined to reflect on some of the ways I think my practice has got better over the past four years. Planning curriculums in 6-week rhythms. I remember speaking to a teacher about the issues of filling time... I also remember much larger...
Three Thoughts on Focus and Attention for Teachers and Students
The actual terms ‘focus’ and ‘attention’ are sadly poor terms for what they can really do. They are unduly technical and dry. They connote task completion and work. As teachers we want to inspire students to experience our lessons, not to just do stuff.
HOW CAN WE CREATE KNOWLEDGE, AMBROSE PIERCE
I've been listening the Western Tradition this week whilst I've been travelling inordinate distances and relying on failing tech. I was struck Ambroise Pare's approach to creating knowledge (link at the bottom). Effectively he says we should use past knowledge...
Some thoughts about transfer – how learning and school are always in tension
As always we are often called into why we are doing this course in our free time. It reminds me how learning and schooling are always in tension. I disdain concept teaching models that aim for skill based transfers in my subjects. Such an approach is a betrayal...
Dissimilar transfer in concept-based learning- Some thoughts
I question concept teaching models that aim for skill based transfers in my subjects. Such an approach loses the power and relevancy of our discipline. Instead I say we should aim for insights, human interest elements. Between schooling and learning, aim for learning.
Thoughts about my education and podcasting
Teaching students for fifteen years has allowed me to recognise the particular deficiencies of my own experiences. One choice every teenager needs to make is whether they follow a vocational or academic route. I would define the sciences and mathematics as a...
ATL IB – Considering concepts in a training task
1 Identity agency, voice, character, narrator, reader, author. ATL: Teaching developed in local and global contexts and Social Skills Rationale: While good mental health requires the relative stability of identity, understanding cultural relativism can, I think,...
RAFT – A Model for Transition for Year 13 Students
1. What did transition look like for you when you had moved from highschool to uni/ last country to Philippines? My movement to university was tricky. I had a huge space of time between my last exams and entering university, so I felt that I got out of study. I...