Dialogic Talk
In a CPD session last year, we watched a video on dialogic talk. The lesson that we watched was a fourth grade Maths lesson. The teacher...
Morals and Values
“Before talking of grit and resilience, we should be challenging our children with the fundamental questions about how they live their...
Variation Theory in Maths
Variation theory is a concept which I heard from Dan a few weeks ago. When practicing a particular skill in a repetitive way we as...
Project Based Learning in History
Implementation At the end of the last academic year, the History department built on it’s existing model of project based learning, drew...
Boosting Achievement with Messages that Motivate
Article: Boosting Achievement With Messages That Motivate Author: Carol S. Dweck Article Reading Time: 10 minutes (5 pages) "The most...
Bidding for Knowledge
In ToK, students need to think about the methods used to gain new knowledge across the Human Sciences and whether these different methods...
Collaboration and Group Work
I was in the staff room a few weeks ago looking at a book that someone had left on one of the tables. You will probably want to know the...
Dunning-Kruger and Curse of Knowledge
Recently I have been looking into the idea of Cognitive Biases (https://yourbias.is/), both from a personal level and an educational...
The benefits of blogging
I am currently reading the excellent Make It Stick by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III and Mark A. McDaniel. The way that story...
4th Education Conference 2018 Healthy Hearts, Healthy Minds
“By 2030 depression will be the most significant health issue facing the millennial generation”. (WHO, 2012) Conference Overview The...