Teach Secondary Magazine product feature
Really short post to point teachers towards the recent feature in Teach Secondary magazine which discusses the rationale behind the design of my class room resources. Did I mention my […]
Teaching and Learning tips Magazine
I've helped put together this teaching and learning tips magazine. And in the spirit of sharing good practice a free copy can be downloaded here
A Gamer take on praise and reward
Innovative approach to praise & Reward Games, be they being played at home on a console, or in school on a phone students love games. A colleague was very keen […]
Languages and IT
Bringing MFL into your IT lessons IT is full of language, we have our own meaning for common words like ‘processing’ ‘storage’ and ‘path’ for example. But aside from that […]
Treasured lessons…
How do you guide students to their treasure ? Two few things I believe: Students should know where a lesson is taking them. Students should know how they are going […]
Art in & out of class…
…I know what I like… I love Museums and Art Galleries, almost every weekend I am in London at the National Gallery, Museum of London or the Tate Modern and […]
Literacy Across the Curriculum, DC Comics’ all New #52 could help!
Comic way to engage with literacy Reading is reading, in a book, on a sign, a menu or…a Comic! If you are struggling to engage students in some work to […]
Flipping out !!
I love teaching 6th form, some of my best lessons (from my POV and Ofsted’s) have been with 6th form students. I can’t always explain why, but if you get […]
ICT & Learning. Prof Stephen Heppell
The place of ICT in the learning model Possibly my shortest post ever; video, well worth watching, Prof Stephen Heppell a wonderful ICT thinker 🙂 Thanks to sjheppell who’s YouTube […]
Creative CPD
I have never been a huge fan of CPD which (only) involved sitting listening to someone in a hall, alright sometimes it's the right call, but most of the time I'm thinking - if this was a lesson...
Twitter and the teacher…
Why should you as a teacher be engaging with Twitter? I would say…Because it can be a resource, an aide to your own learning, and an insight into the education […]
The Creative Partner, Google & KS3 IT
Google sites to engage students In redesigning the KS3 ICT SoW this year I have had complete freedom to be as innovative as I liked. So I’m trying out all […]
Engaging…
In the run up to a training session I am running soon, I am going to publish a number of short posts covering tools and ideas for engaging students using […]
iPad…what we really wanna know is can it be useful?
iPad – Making more of IT iPad – latest attention grabber? Yes, I bought one, yes it created quite a stir at school when it arrived (a day ahead of […]
Cry “Youtube” & let slip the dogs of war…
I know I’m not alone in wanting access to YouTube to use in my classroom! You know what I mean, yeah? You find a great clip, or video on YouTube […]
Second BETT
Evaluate everything… Evaluations are such a huge part of teaching, we evaluate ourselves (to the extreme) we evaluate our lessons, our students, our departments, our year groups, our school, our […]
Is the Frog a Prince?
Is the Frog a Prince? As a follow on to my previous VLE post I want to share the Frog VLE with any interested parties out there who are either […]
Open your mind, close your wallet!
Mounting costs & tighter budgets = the need for increased creativity! (Oh and free Software)
Place your BETTs now!!!
The BETT show – the teachers version of a free run in a sweet shop!! Prologue It’s a couple of years since I last got the chance to go to […]
Apple in Education…
Its all about using a Mac to innovate teachers as much at students in UK Education...
Interactive class-room desks!!!!
I always believe that innovation isn’t about having the latest gadget, its about thinking of something to do with it that no-one else has though up yet. With that in […]
New teaching resource from the BBC
“BBC teachers” …a new resource from the BBCs education pages. The BBC has been building some of the best online learning resources for many years, BBC Bitesize has been around […]
Blogging – Getting students into it!!!
This is something I am starting this year with my final year A-Level students in my Applied ICT class (you might notice they get there own page on this blog […]
21st Century idea for CPD!!!
21st Century CPD I have ideas, all the time, I’m just one of those people… Here’s my latest idea that keeps coming into my mind! A while ago I mentioned […]
ICT in line with Ofsted thinking isn’t so bad :)
Recently reading the Ofsted report into their findings during ICT inspections since 2005 I was pleasantly surprised to find I wasn't shaking in my boots, instead I was highlighting huge sections and saying to myself "Oh yes, we do this, and I really wanted a good excuse to try that..."
A guide to using the internet for teaching in the 21st century
So as a start I’ve thought about sharing a few of the web links that have proved useful, to me and my students. I’ll try and review each one as I post them...
New I-phone thoughts to enhance my teaching…
As I mentioned earlier I’m an Apple Mac fan, but I waited until the second generation of I-phones were released before I bought one – partly from financial reasons, and […]
Return to teachers.tv
As I said, I’ll return to the topic. Over the past few years teachers.tv has really grown, with some great programmes on the channel, everything from lessons recorded and reviewed […]
