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What's the point of classroom displays?
Jul 21, 2013 |
Category: learning
Having broken up for the summer and feeling warm and expansive, I foolishly asked Twitter what it would like me to write about next. Michael Oxenham came back, quick as a flash with "classroom display...
Teaching sequence for developing independence Stage 4: Practise
Jul 04, 2013 |
Category: Featured
What does practice make? Well, it turns out that my mum was wrong. Doug Lemov points out in Practice Perfect that practice doesn't make perfect, practice makes permanent. What we practise we get good...
Project Based Learning: I did it my way
Sep 23, 2012 |
Category: English
I've finally managed to cobble together my first post since starting back in September. What with starting a new job, teaching A level for the first time in over a decade and languishing in post-publi...
The art of failing
Jul 06, 2012 |
Category: learning
Why on earth would we ever want to fail? Failing's bad, right?Obviously getting something wrong, performing poorly and making mistakes is uncomfortable. But these things are a part of life. An importa...
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