Diary update
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TeachMeet – Sharing best practice
I think CPD needs an overhaul. It takes some really special CPD these days to remove the look of boredom from teachers faces as they sit in their school hall […]
Engagement – Getting boys learning
How do we engage boys in learning? Teachers often debate this question and when my AS Sociology girls outperformed the boys by 11% in the summer of 2012, we realised […]
Questioning – Improving students ability to question
My Starting Point I wanted my students to take a greater responsibility for their learning and I believed that trying to encourage more questions from my students would support me […]
Smell of success!
Something Shared at Teach Meet – Smelly Stickers – These are in your packs. A top banana lesson! It’s a known fact that smells are connected with memory, we smell […]
10 things I changed in my class (and me) this year
Numbers seem to be big in Education ‘100 ideas for’ ‘101 ways to…’ etc etc, everywhere you look there are books or posters with a defined number of ideas on […]
TeachMeet Bedford (Fee CPD)
TeachMeet I’m a huge fan of teachers sharing ideas, the best career development always seems to happen when just see something or hear something that sparks an idea off. That’s […]
