Posts Tagged ‘Education’
From the Classroom Up
So we had a Journal Club. Getting on for 200 tweets from a small (but dedicated) group of Science teachers, with some tentative conclusions as Storified elsewhere. Although participants commented on the weak results from the case study – unavoidable with small groups on a single site – it certainly seemed interesting. Could we show […]
Filed under: assessment, ed-research, practicals, teaching | 5 Comments
Tags: Education, Journal Club, Science Learning Centres, teaching
Evidence-based practice in education is getting more and more attention recently. Projects like #SciTeachJC have been part of this, but I think there’s a general movement towards wanting to base what we do on facts rather than wishful thinking. The problem is that it’s actually quite hard, for several reasons, to be an evidence-based-practitioner. That […]
Filed under: CPD, political, teaching | 10 Comments
Tags: British Educational Research Association, Education, Education Endowment Foundation, evidence, teaching
Collecting Evidence
As promised – and much faster than usual – here’s a modified version of my own CPD tracker. The idea of this is for teachers to keep track of evidence towards the Core Standards during their training or NQT year. I think it might be useful for those doing GTP as well as the PGCE […]
Filed under: CPD, ITT, teaching, web | 6 Comments
Tags: CPD, Education, Google, Google Doc, GoogleForm, Postgraduate Certificate in Education
A Public Portfolio
Happy half-term to all my colleagues, near and far. Or if you’re back at work this week, I’ll try not to taunt you too much. But I’m off; reading lots of books, taking time over breakfast, playing with kids and kittens… oh, and blogging. About work. There’s something wrong with this picture. Anyway. I’ve been […]
Filed under: blognews, CPD, web | 9 Comments
Tags: CPD, Education, Google, teaching
Uncontrolled Assessments
Despite the title, a lot of this also relates to AS and A2 – Physics, at least. (They don’t trust me with squishy stuff or cooking.) It seemed a waste to spend time answering the call for evidence from Ofqual without blogging it too. Especially because it made me realise how messed up the whole […]
Filed under: AQA, exams, practicals, students, teaching | 4 Comments
Tags: AQA, Education, General Certificate of Secondary Education, Ofqual, teaching
Jobs For The Summer
New planner? Check. New timetable? Check. New class lists? Well, depends on how well organised your school is. Pile of coursework to mark? Probably. Schemes of work to tweak ready for September? Probably. Now think carefully about this one. Have you got the important jobs sorted out? Yes, I know those jobs are important. Like […]
Filed under: books, CPD, organisation, teaching, web | 7 Comments
Tags: Education, Educators, Professional development, september, Teacher
#govelevels
Well, it’s been an interesting few days. I offer no apology for my knee-jerk reaction to the news that our Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove, was proposing a return to two distinct tiers (caution, DailyMail link) at age 16. I’ve spent the last few days trying to track the story, as much as […]
Filed under: exams, students, teaching | 21 Comments
Tags: Education, gcses, gove, teaching
Integrating Science
I know the title sounds like some dreadful policy statement, or yet another course which promises high scores for the league tables without any dumbing down, nudge nudge wink wink. But it’s not. Instead, it’s a simple activity you could do with any science class. It would work well during Science Week, and I think […]
Filed under: L2L, science, students, teaching | 2 Comments
Tags: Education, Physics, students, teaching, twitter
It’s always a tricky one, isn’t it? Do we show them the experiment, knowing that a half-dozen or so will be messing around at the back or comparing nail varnish with their friends? Or do we let them loose with glassware and clamp stands, waiting for the crashing noises or the blank looks to begin? […]
Filed under: L2L, practicals, printables, teaching | 6 Comments
Tags: Alom Shaha, David Sang, demonstrations, Education, practicals, teaching
