Value of Student Feedback
Student feedback can sound daunting. Opening ourselves up to criticism is never easy and coming from students that criticism can be...
Active Learning y el Blog de Castellano
El aprendizaje activo es un arriesgarse continuo, porque el maestro está en búsqueda de actividades que permitan a los estudiantes...
Shadowing Students
A couple of weeks ago I spent two days shadowing students in two different year groups (S1 and S3). In this post I will outline my main...
Successes and Targets
I recently saw this tweet and it made me stop and reflect on what my successes were for this year, and what I want to work on next year....
Seven Myths About Education
Seven Myths about Education is an exploration of some widely held ideas about education, and how they are not true. Daisy Christodoulou...
Test-Enhanced Learning
Article: Test-Enhanced Learning Author: Henry L. Roediger III and Jeffrey D. Karpicke Article Reading Time: 20 minutes Summary This...
ICT to enhance formative assessment
The IB Visual arts syllabus has changed, rather than having a visiting examiner we now submit and moderate work digitally. To make the...
Cognitive Load for a Stressed out Teacher
I remember some time ago, when Dan was trying to get us thinking about the Cognitive Workload idea. Now it is one of the Collaborative...
Improvising in Music
AIM: TO GIVE EVERY MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENT THE NECESSARY TOOLS TO BE ABLE TO IMPROVISE IN A GROUP! What did I want to do? I wanted to...
Exploring a Different Working Space in the Maths Classroom
Several members of the Maths department requested to have extra whiteboard space installed in their classrooms over the July holiday. In...