Working harder makes you smarter. Originally posted on Class Teaching. Last Thursday saw our fourth annual TeachMeet at Durrington High School. As always, it was a fantastic evening. A great demonstration of the appetite of teachers for sharing and collaboration exactly what teachmeets should be about. The evening got off to a great start with David Didau. Kate Bloomfield The best revision guideever. This entry was posted in Uncategorized.

Where does the time go . Although Noah has only been around for a month he has refocused my thinking around education. The best for our students. Students to take risks in their learning. To feel safe at school. To have positive adult role models in all their classes. Students to be life-long learners. I hope that by the time Noah reaches high school the research supporting best practices in education have taken over in our high school. The second presentation during my first hours .

Growth Mindset Misconceptions and Missteps. I have been working on developing a growth mindset culture. In my school since October 2013, when I heard John Tomsett. This is a common misconception. Dweck herself refers to it in this video. Which highlight those people w.

Reading on Knowledge, Memory and Learning. The new national curriculum this year brought with it some changes in grammatical terminology. One of these changes saw simple, compound and complex sentences become single clause, multi clause coordinated and multi clause subordinated sentences. This post explains an analogy to teach this aspect of grammar. The challenge can be increase.

BDONE Part 7 Learning with Laughter. Following his highly amusing keynote Dave Keeling shared his thoughts on creating the right climate for learning. The whole theme was relaxed but challenged; his weapon of choice for keeping a relaxed atmosphere is humour but he also shared the challenge question technique and some reflections on creating the right classroom climate for thinking. Answer to get them used to sharing their thoughts. Then you can ask them to take a risk on thinking and get them hooked.

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Trying new ideas to improve teaching and learning. This was number 1 on 14th March 2004. Something really strange happened to me this week. My current Headteacher is retiring at the end of term and she must have been clearing out her files. She came to me with a blue file.

The Ladybird Book of Edu-Twitter. A bit of fun which became, for just a couple of hours this evening, all-consuming.

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