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The new Tumblr app just made blogging even easier. Perhaps I should start doing it more frequently again?!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEwdRE8MKQg&hd=1] Thanks to Tom Barrett for pointing out this fantastic video. Great resource for assemblies, Geography lessons, Science lessons etc.
I thought it time to share some of the resources that I use frequently and perhaps I take for granted. 1st up, nrich: nrich is a great UK website that is chock full of rich mathematical problems suitable for pupils from 5-19. The website has a teacher or pupil view. Following the link to the…
Ofsted in their infinite wisdom have deemed that half of Maths teaching in England is not up to scratch. The focus appears to be ‘teaching to the test’, now who’d of thought schools might reort to such a thing when the other option is to be labled as failing? I hope that this is a…
What videos or other resources would you use to share these values in a school? These are the four key values that we share as a school. We’ve spent a great deal of effort working as a school to develop and agree upon our core values and aims and from them a school improvement plan….
David is the author of http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/. Worked through some fantastic infographics from his site, go look at them now. Better still see his TED talk: Some interesting insights from using Google InSights to track search terms. Great tool for use in the classroom. Nice talk about needing to compare proportions rather than totals, in the concept of…
This post was written as part of my day job for Community Brands / Assembly: https://assembly.education/implications-mat-data-leaders/ Last month saw the long-awaited publication of the Government’s education white paper ‘Opportunity for all‘. By now, you’ve probably seen some breakdowns of the paper. If not, I would recommend the ASCL summary. Over the next two Data Trends posts,…