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Musings on Creativity in Teaching (Part 1: Knowing Your Knowledge)
Post about the importance of subject knowledge as a first step to creativity in teaching.
Read more »An answer to the question, “How long does it have to be sir?”
I have just finished a round of assessment with my Year 9 SEN group. They are not yet at the stage where we can do extended writing, but given that their last assessment was a verbal presentation, I wanted to get them to write something and think about how words can be used.
I have been [...]
Using ‘The Ten Faces of Innovation ‘ in the classroom
I am currently running a summer school for 35 Gifted and Talented students – it has been a great experience based around a murder mystery set in a temporary WWII hospital. At the beginning of the process I wanted to have an original way to group students and get them thinking about the who they [...]
Read more »Green Cross Learning (Stop, Look and Listen)
I have been working on a scheme of work for the past few weeks. I am quite proud of it actually – it contains some activities that I have never used before and has lots of variety. I think it works on several levels and challenges the way that students usually view and interact with [...]
Read more »Learn 2.0
Clay Shirky raises some interesting issues in his TED talk (http://tinyurl.com/lphud3) about how groups work. The issue for educators has to be how do we transform the learning experience to match the processes of those who regularly contribute to online activities. Sharing is part of the online culture and many young people are able to [...]
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