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Year 11 Review Autumn
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An example of using a 15-5-1 essay plan with commentary
Dear students. Today I wanted to write a mini-essay about a sense I have had recently about the space between the inspirational feeling when an ambition is conceived, and the arduous senselessness in its difficult/impossible completion. Even just in that focus, I do...
A short essay on evaluation
This evening I decide to write an essay for my students in Year 9. It is an essay for any student or thinker of any age, but it continues a conversation started in class. Touching upon dreams, perception and the nature of "evalution" (our key term to prove progress),...
7 points on improving planning, yet still sustaining
Every Sunday sees me, and many other teachers, do the most extensive planning for the week ahead. Some principles for this: 1) You need to have something else in the day. If you do nothing but plan, your entire day can be eaten up. Planning should, where possible, be...
Barack Obama ‘Yes we can’ video
Watch this video from 9:08 to understand the speech.
Thoughts of how to evaluate
A colleague asked me about this for A-Level, so I produced a small work pack in a PPA. Interesting task, the kind of stuff that paperwork often isn't! One way of planning and writing evaluations The issue with (many) evaluations is that they lack a focus. The...
Thoughts on observations
Increasingly I'm using peer-observation as a way of improving learning. As I have written fairly extensively about observations, I have firm (and maybe even sound!) ideas of what constitutes good practice. Fortunately for me, the ways I can teach at the moment please...
Using MyWorks
It's time for me to dedicate some time to setting up my MyWorks classes, and to critique that process. It is 11:35am. Prior to setting them up, I have had to: a) Find all the KS3 sets in a digital format. b) Retrieve my username and password. The ability to email the...
Marking – some thoughts for teachers
One of the things that I thought about during the holidays was my marking. There is no way that I am spending the amount of time marking as I do without the students returning the favour. For example, one class of marking three lessons has taken me 45 mins. I have...
Teaching Websites Collation
On this morning, before the first 5k race for a long time for me, I opened a link from the TES website. It initially screamed, "spam!" But it was actually worthwhile. A collation of useful teaching websites for teachers in England grouped by subject....