The Essay Emporium: crowdsourcing English essay titles
Edssential article from @joe__kirby : Like a butterfly or a wild flower cupped in your hand, essay titles are small and delicate. Seen differently, though, they are a microcosm of our entire subject....
View ArticleModelling & Questioning
Edssential article from @shaun_allison : The 15 Minute Forum was led tonight by English teacher and Literacy Leader, Lucy Darling. Lucy started the session by saying that when she was using modelling...
View ArticleMaking explanations stick
Edssential article from @shaun_allison : Last weekend a twitter conversation resulted in our teaching ‘Big 4′ evolving into 5 –Challenge, explanation, modelling, questioning & feedback. More can...
View ArticleMastering maths curriculum design
Edssential article from @MrNickHart: Recently, Bruno Reddy and Michael Tidd have written about their experiences in designing a mastery maths curriculum. It seems that there are lots of us designing...
View ArticlePerfect Practice Makes Perfect
Edssential article from @shaun_allison : Over the weekend, I came across this video of a 3 year old American lad called Titus, doing some pretty impressive stuff with a basketball hoop: Now, many...
View ArticleThis much I know about…why we should stop intervening and focus upon...
Edssential article from @johntomsett : This is my first ever request post. I loved reading a post by @DHTJohn on the corrosive nature of examination run-in interventions. I wish I had written it. When...
View ArticleHow ‘Why Don’t Students Like School?’ might help me teach
Edssential article from @Mr_Bunker_Edu : I feel a little late to the party having only just finished reading Daniel T Willingham’s Why Don’t Students Like School. The book was released in 2009, and...
View ArticleMultiple models and the journey to freedom
Edssential article from @atharby : “ To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not...
View ArticleThe Big Picture and Comprehensive Learning Objectives
Edssential article from @englishalewis : Students sometimes take a bloody long time to learn. There have been blog posts about how progress doesn’t necessarily demonstrate learning and blog posts...
View ArticleShould we share learning objectives?
Edssential article from @ManYanaEd : Sharing learning objectives is a common feature of all lessons in the UK. It is one of the ubiquitous elements that most teachers think Ofsted expect and the...
View ArticleThe Essay Emporium: crowdsourcing English essay titles
Edssential article from @joe__kirby : Like a butterfly or a wild flower cupped in your hand, essay titles are small and delicate. Seen differently, though, they are a microcosm of our entire subject....
View ArticleThe beauty of annotations
Edssential article from @joe__kirby : Like dewdrops on a dragonfly, annotations are microscopic, fragile and beautiful. I’ve come to believe that they’re the most important secret for teaching...
View ArticleProspero’s knowledge: magic or curse?
Edssential article from @joeybagstock : The pursuit of knowledge I have been thinking a lot about The Tempest recently. Preparing two A2 classes for their imminent exams means I have been immersed in...
View ArticleGetting Great
Edssential article from @shaun_allison: Teaching is a creative profession, and at DHS we want our teachers to be innovative and excited about what they do – not stifled by an overly prescriptive...
View ArticleHow We Learn: The Science
Edssential article from @leadinglearner: The summer always provides a welcome break and a some time for reading. Apart from a bit of light reading I’ve enjoyed Switch: How to Change Things When Change...
View ArticleBack to School Part 4: Planning
Edssential article from @learningspy : This series of #backtoschool blogs summarises much of my thinking as it’s developed over the past few years and is aimed at new or recently qualified teachers....
View ArticleGreat teacher talk
Edssential article from @turnfordblog : The ‘war’ on Teacher Talk Time was one of the more depressing developments in my teaching career. Obviously secondary students will rapidly get bored if they are...
View ArticleBennett’s tenets: My behaviour guides for going back to school
Edssential article from @tombennett71: It’s back to school for many teachers next week – including me – and most of us are already walking like shades through the crepuscular hinterland, the limbo that...
View ArticleWHO’S RESPONSIBLE FOR MY STUDENTS’ FOLDERS?
Edssential article from @HFletcherWood : My students’ folders have check sheets, documenting their state and (usually) academic targets). With Sayers’ words in mind, I invite readers to examine this...
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Mythbusting…
Edssential article from @shaun_allison : Last week I gave a talk to our new staff about teaching. The night before, I asked the good people of twitter for their input: It caused a bit of a discussion!...
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