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Change and Continuity – Pupils’ ideas
‘and then, just like that, everybody just forgot, and they didn’t accuse people of witches anymore’ Jenny has turned a process of change into an event. Someone important made a rational decision that everyone accepted forthwith. So, I’m thinking about … Continue reading
Change and Continuity
I’ve just posted a quick trawl through the web and through the OUDE PGCE handbook reading lists on ‘Change and Continuity’ as I’m planning a new SOW with a colleague at Little Heath School for teaching next year. As we … Continue reading
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ICT with the interns at OUDE
This session on homework and ICT is going to start us thinking about how we can get around restrictions on the use of ICT in schools (mainly a shortage of available computer suites for history classes) and still enable our … Continue reading
More differentiation – or access and challenge for all.
I’ve just published a second page about differentiation, or ways to enable all students to access the learning in your classroom, whilst offering support and challenge at the same time. I’ll follow it with a third, a long (and probably … Continue reading
Classroom Management
We’re doing a session at OUDE tomorrow to help the interns approach their second, shorter teaching practice in a new school. One of the sessions is on classroom management. I was pointed to this excellent video by a colleague!
thinking about differences shouldn't drive learning…
I’m still thinking about my second page on differentiation. In the meantime, something I saw on twitter has inspired me on the same topic. I’ve already posted on the blog about how much damage is done by ability labeling (and … Continue reading
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Tagged ability, attainment, differentiation, learning together, pupils
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The Difference Engine
We’re about to start the last term of my time as a tutor on Oxford Uni’s History PGCE. It’s been quite an experience, and although I’m looking forward to congratulating the interns at the end of the course, and I’m … Continue reading
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Tagged ability, attainment, differentiation, labels, learning together, professional learning communities
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ICT for Learning with the NQTs at Little Heath School
I’ve an hour (gasp!) with the NQTs after school tonight, and in that time I want to introduce them to the idea of using ICT for Learning (especially for homework). We’re to start with a cool voice thread – the … Continue reading
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Tagged homework, ICTfL, professional learning communities, website, Yacapaca
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The history department as professional learning community?
As you might be aware from the twitter feed, I had an interview a little over a month ago for the HOD post at Little Heath. Great jobs like that don’t come up everyday, so I grabbed the opportunity and … Continue reading
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Pencast!
This is really a sort of proof of concept. We do a lot of revision sessions, and I wanted to see if we could ask one teacher in particular to use a livescribe pen to do a pencast of one … Continue reading
