
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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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, […]
Continue reading »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 […]
Continue reading »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, […]
Continue reading »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 […]
Continue reading »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 […]
Continue reading »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. […]
Continue reading »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 […]
Continue reading »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 […]
Continue reading »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, […]
Continue reading »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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