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Yesterday hundreds of thousands of 16 year olds opened an envelope to find out the fruits of the first 11 years of hard work at school. College courses, apprenticeships, jobs and more rested on the grades they had been given in their GCSE exams. The night before they were already panicking that something might be…
Poor parent parking = detention!
The Beeb have an amusing news story about a school in Kent who are going to give pupils detention if their parents park in the bus lane outside school. I can just imagine the arguments if we tried to enforce this at our school! 🙂
From danielstucke.com: A ‘Technical Baccalaureate’?
A ‘Technical Baccalaureate’?: The education charity Edge, which promotes technical and practical learning and of which Adonis is a trustee, is working closely with the Baker Dearing Educational Trust to come up with such a qualification. Under the plans, seen exclusively by Education Guardian, pupils aged 14 to 16 would spend 60% of their time…
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Slumdog Pythagoras – Minimally Invasive Education
Inspired by Sugata Mitra at the SSAT National Conference I decided to try and ape his ‘minimally invasive education‘ within my own Maths classroom. In a really tough December week this two hours shone out as a great teaching and learning experience. Before going any further, please head over to my previous post to read about the inspiration…
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Questionnaires Take 2 with Twitter, Google Forms & Wallwisher
I had an observation lesson today and decided to pull out all the technology tricks! Â We happened to be at a point in the scheme of work looking at data handling and collecting data in particular. Â I decided I’d develop the Questionnaires lesson which I used at interview last year. Â 60 minutes should be enough…
Evidence Based Teaching?
Oliver Quinlan’s got me thinking out loud… …What if we spent all the money / time / efforts that our Teaching Assistants cost / provide on conducting detailed analysis of progress and then feeding this back to the teacher and learner? John Hattie’s work is hard to ignore. But Oliver’s right. We continue to be…