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Objective Quest - Day 4

Oct 13, 2011 | Category: English

Am starting to feel slightly exhausted by all the different objective introducing techniques whirring around my head like a cloud of relentless cheerful wasps. I long to use the same one all day for a...

#SOLO taxonomy #voki

Objective Quest - Day 3

Oct 12, 2011 | Category: English

Quick update on the Learning Objectives google doc: we're now up to 47 ways to introduce learning objectives! Only three more to go so if you have any good stuff lurking in the cluttered cupboard of y...

#Jim Roberson

Objective Quest: Day 2

Oct 11, 2011 | Category: English

OK, after a positive start yesterday on my quest to try out 40 different learning objectives before the end of term, I was raring to go today. I only have three lessons on Tuesday and spend a lot of t...

#Einstein #jigsaw

50 ways to lead your lesson

Oct 09, 2011 | Category: English

The problem is all inside your head", she said to meThe answer is easy if you take it logicallyI'd like to help you in your struggle to be freeThere must be fifty ways to lead your lesson...Paul Simon...

#Ben Goldacre #Bob Dylan #Kristian Still #learning objectives

Reading should be our top priority

Sep 28, 2011 | Category: English

[caption id="attachment_476" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="http://www.martinamisweb.com/miscellaneous.shtml"][/caption]I've just read a sobering piece on reading in UK schools from Mike Baker...

#Mike Baker #Neil Kinnock #Roy Blatchford

Teaching texting

Aug 23, 2011 | Category: English

A lot of folks are very worried about the impact of teenagers texting. In a Daily Mail article (oh! the shame), John Humphrys expressed the view that "SMS vandals... are doing to our language what Gen...

#gcse english #spoken language #texting

Rip it up: Hula hooping about literature

Jul 16, 2011 | Category: English

I keep this post on the site to remind me just how far I've come. When I wrote this in 2011, despite teaching for 12 years, I knew practically nothing about education. I am now rather ashamed and emba...

#learning #creativity #hula hoops #risks

Zooming in and out

Jul 11, 2011 | Category: English

For some years now I have been using what I call The Grade Ladder with students to help them understand the skills required to perform at different grades. This isn't particularly original and has bee...

#analysing #bloom's taxonomy #English #evaluating #GCSE #Literature #Of Mice and Men

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