Putting tea back in to teaching! Teaching and Learning Literature. Ski instructors are brilliant at making their learners progress in an extremely complex and challenging area. Much like modelling metacognition, I have found encouraging students to imitate professionals and academics .

I delivered this talk at the Festival of Education 2017. From my notes and my memory, here is what I said. It is very long and borrows from previous blogs and tweets. I want to argue that education suffers in the U. because we focus too much on how to teach, often in the name of pedagogy, at the expense of any real emphasis on what to teach.

For 200 metres he strides ahead, his pale legs pumping like pistons; to the other runners, he is a dot, hitting the second bend as they finish the first. And then, suddenly, mid-stride, he stops. He bends, gripping his right side, wincing. I was that kid on sports day. And, to be honest, I still am. Instead, I propose that we keep our personal imp.

My thoughts on education, Edtech and its uses in the classroom. Screen Time, Family Time, Play Time. I was prompted to write this post after I took part in a Periscope conversation with a few others a couple of weeks ago. As a parent how do you decide how much screen time is enough? This is how things work in our family.

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.

Will online courses be set up to feed what might be perceived as a need for preparation? The revolution starts here.

Reading comprehension strategies to help it stick. Great visual poster to remind students and teachers of reading strategies to support deeper understanding and comprehension.

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.

Happily teaching online at University of Oklahoma for 10 years. Saw a blog post of mine here and left a comment, which then led me to connect with him at Twitter also! I had learned about him through his blog. Growth Mindset Misconceptions and Missteps. Because I practice, I do better.