Resources and training documents I have created for a variety of training sessions
Have you been hearing how great Twitter can be as a teacher to support your CPD and enhance and inform your practice? Well the rumours are right! Below is a short screencast focussing on Twitter basics and educational hashtags (thanks to @TeamTait for the infographic) to help get you started! You…
I’ve been curating blooms resources for sharing and so thought I would add them to my blog too. Do you have any great resources for blooms? I’d love to see them if you have. Thanks! Follow Mark Anderson’s board Computing resources on Pinterest.
I was asked recently, ‘what on earth is blended learning’? So I thought I’d jot down my thoughts with some linked references. Blended learning is when learning takes place in a number of different ways, normally with a mix of face to face interaction between teacher and student and elements which…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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