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The joy of marking

Oct 27, 2011 | Category: assessment

I'm a big fan of marking students' work. I love it so much I let a big pile of it build up to do over the holidays. As an English teacher I'm faced with a lot of marking and most of it needs to be rea...

#Ofsted #AfL #Ian Gilbert #literacy #marking #Triple impact marking

End of term

Oct 24, 2011 | Category: Featured

Term 1 is always far more exhausting than I expect it to be. Some of the highlights from last term include meeting some cracking education types including Ian Gilbert, Phil Beadle and Jim Roberson; be...

#blogging

Objective Quest - Day 5

Oct 18, 2011 | Category: English

Phew! After two days of 'curriculum enrichment' followed by an evening compering awards evening I'm knackered. Friday's lessons seem a long time ago now but I'm committed to reviewing the learning obj...

#Jackie Beere #Kristian Still #learning continuums #meta menus

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

The Learning Pyramid

Oct 08, 2011 | Category: myths

Consider this little gem that periodically does the rounds in education circles:[caption id="attachment_68110" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] (This is just one of the very many variations on the Le...

#James Atherton #Learning pyramid #National Training Laboratories #Will Thalheimer

Forget the answer, what's the question?

Sep 24, 2011 | Category: learning

We all know the value of effective questioning, but should it be the students rather than the teacher doing a bit more of the asking? After reading about Question Formulation Technique (getting studen...

#Of Mice and Men #Dylan Wiliam #Hattie #QFT #Question Formulation Technique #Steinbeck #Tait Coles

What's the point of homework?

Sep 04, 2011 | Category: Featured

Father: What's all those books then?Son: That's my homework dad.Father: You know what son, if they can't teach you all the stuff you need to know during the day, they can't be very good at their jobs...

#Phil Beadle #detention #Hattie #homework #Marzano