I've just had the pleasure of reading the latest book in the Perfect series by @shaun_allison, 'Perfect Teacher-Led CPD'. As someone who has written one of the books in the series, I always know, having gone through the copy-edit process, that the books are always put together really well, having…
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I've been a big fan and supporter of flipped learning for a long time. I wrote about it at length in Perfect ICT and whilst most evidence is anecdotal, in my experience, it works. For those of you who don't know, flipped learning is the attempt to take much of…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Now I'm hoping that with a title to the post as it is I don't end up being put on every filter list going - as educators reading this you will probably know that I am of course talking about 'Dedicated Improvement and Reflection Time'. Championed by @jackiebeere in many…
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The secret of teaching success isn’t mythical. It isn’t even that hard to work out. Watch any amazing teacher in their classroom and it is clear. The key to teaching success is to care about your learners and build relationships with them. For them to know that you really give…
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Like Zoë Elder, I'm doing some work around Teachers' Standards at the moment. Following on from seeing her collection of 'Quipio' posters in a post here, I thought I'd make my own to use both electronically in presentations and to print out a bit bigger and use elsewhere, such as…
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Many is the blog post which highlights the ways in which Twitter is the best staffroom in the world but I've not seen too many that highlight the ways in which we can use Twitter in the classroom. Many teachers love to use Twitter as a resource to share, explore,…
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