Mark Anderson - ICTEvangelist

Mar 21 2014

Lesson observations, lesson study & doing it for ourselves

By Mark Anderson T & L One Comment

Unless you've been living under some kind of rock recently there has been huge debate about whether or not lessons should be graded, particularly by Ofsted inspectors. I could link to loads of different blog posts and articles related to this; even Radio 4 were discussing it on the Today…

Mar 02 2014

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Gooru: A search engine for learning…

By Mark Anderson EdTech 6 Comments

I've sung the praises of Gooru for some time now but haven't blogged about it and thought it was about time that I did. Gooru is great as a launch page for browsers in schools because of the content it kicks you off with. It might not give you the…

Mar 01 2014

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Exit tickets and ‘keep, grow, change’ templates

By Mark Anderson Learning 3 Comments

One of the things that I like to do with my classes involves giving them an exit ticket at the end of the lesson. You can use exit tickets for a variety of uses: Students creating their own learning outcomes for next lesson Setting targets for their next lesson Highlighting…

Feb 17 2014

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Let’s do school data

By Mark Anderson Leadership 10 Comments

Make it human When thinking about school data I'm always drawn to thinking about the seminal character on Star Trek The Next Generation played by Brent Spiner. The character, an android, is always striving to make himself as human as possible. "I am, perhaps, not nearly so human as I…

Feb 16 2014

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#MyTop5 hints for showing appreciation

By Mark Anderson #mytop5 No Comments

We all work in a very pressured world. There are so many stake holders in education, that showing appreciation is rarely at the top of the list for any teacher. Well, it should be, and is at the heart of building positive relationships. Here are my top five hints…

Feb 15 2014

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Great displays – a crowd sourced collection

By Mark Anderson Learning 7 Comments

We've been looking at display recently and so I thought I'd ask Twitter for some examples on what would make a great display and for fellow Twitter folk to share photos of their favourite displays. I was not disappointed (see the Storify at the end of this blog post for…

Feb 09 2014

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#MyTop5 Tips for TeachMeet

By Mark Anderson #mytop5 4 Comments

I could probably write a lot more than this but here are my top 5 tips for Teachmeet at the moment. I suspect others would place other things or replace things in here too and that's fine. Every TeachMeet is different. I hope these tips help you with yours -…

Feb 02 2014

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Classcharts review

By Mark Anderson Learning 3 Comments

Seating plans are a real help in the classroom. They help you to map out your learners around the room, help with differentiation, allow you to build in support and extension structures to your classroom and much much more. In a recent sharing session at work, a colleague of mine…

Feb 01 2014

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Ways to effect positive change #MyTop5

By Mark Anderson #mytop5 3 Comments

The phrase, "it's easier to ask for forgiveness than it is to ask for permission" is something I've heard many people say. I've also heard folk say that "you catch more flies with honey". So in that spirit, in trying to help bring about positive changes in your school; sometimes…

Jan 28 2014

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ICT for you, ICT for them, ICT for learning

By Mark Anderson Learning 2 Comments

As mentioned in my post previously here about the hashtag #MobilePGCE where I asked Tweachers to give advice to trainee teachers about why they might want to use technology, I mentioned I was running a session with trainees on that topic. I broke the session down in to four distinct…