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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Creativity in the classroom: myths and strategies
Back in April, I was a mentor at London’s Google innovator Program where I ran a session on strategies to improve creative thinking. Then in […]
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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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The three types of mistake and how to use them in the classroom
When a child makes a mistake in my maths class, my typical response has usually been something along the lines of, “can you spot where you […]
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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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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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Why do I need to know this?
The idea that the only things worth learning at school are things you are going to need to use later in life annoys me. Of […]
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The 12 Joys of Teaching returns for 2016!
Two years ago, I started The 12 Joys of Teaching as a bit of light relief for teachers during what is often a long, tiring and […]
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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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