Improving the readability of text
Before I became a teacher, I worked as a designer, mostly in publishing, after completing a four-year degree in typography and graphic communication – yes, […]
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Teaching abstraction in maths
When it comes to reasoning in maths, quite often (assuming they’ve got the arithmetic and calculations bit nailed) what the questions are testing is how […]
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Reflection: The Learning Scientists podcast
Over the summer I got back into running [read: slow jogging] and also added walking into the mix. It turns out that when I run, […]
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Time out: another point about teacher workload
Teacher workload. Right. Teachers have a lot to do and there’s a lot being written and talked about in terms of SLTs tackling unnecessary workload, targeting […]
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Safer Internet Day 2017: a collection
Safer Internet Day is coming up on Tuesday 7th February and while it’s great to have a day to focus on this huge and important […]
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Developing language in maths
Whether or not you pay much attention to Bloom’s Taxonomy and the like, teaching children how to explain their thinking/working/methods etc in maths is key. […]
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The simple rule for giving feedback
When it comes to giving feedback, surely there is one very simple rule that needs to be followed. It doesn’t matter if the feedback is verbal […]
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5 teacher take-aways from The Great British Bake-Off
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, it’s near impossible to not know it’s The Great British Bake-Off final tonight. Here’s a few things teachers […]
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Knowing vs feeling
Recently, I’ve been thinking about a few things that have happened to me, which have reminded me about the benefit of not just knowing something, […]
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My #summer10
I love this idea from Rachel Jones and knew I would have to join in. I don’t think I always do make the best of […]
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