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Sep 24 2019

Professional development days I can run for your school

By Mark Anderson Conferences, iPad, Leadership, Learning, Work with me No Comments

Since I started working freelance, a significant part of my work has been working with schools supporting them with teaching and learning and providing consultancy and training. At a glance, you can see I've been pretty busy... The feedback I get for my work is exemplary too: https://twitter.com/antonrob_mc2/status/1098971741475561473?s=20 https://twitter.com/aj3fletcher/status/1111928057999343616?s=20 https://twitter.com/OLewis_coaching/status/1060568797193691137?s=20…

Sep 16 2018

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The Periodic Table of Educational Books to read today

By Mark Anderson Books, CPD, educators, Free resource, Learning No Comments

It is true to say that one of the best things (for me) about the education profession is that it is ever changing; always developing. As we learn more about how learning takes place and seek to do better by our learners in the classroom, we seek out new ideas,…

Sep 08 2017

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The Periodic Table of Teachers to Follow on Twitter

By Mark Anderson Pedagogy first, Resources, Social Media, Twitter No Comments

Twitter for professional development It's really interesting seeing the number of schools that are purposefully working to help teachers learn how to capitalise on the ways in which Twitter can be used for professional development. I am a huge champion of Twitter for CPD and I have run many sessions…

Jun 11 2017

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50 popular hashtags to help develop your professional learning

By Mark Anderson CPD, Social Media, T & L, Twitter No Comments

What is a hashtag? Hashtags for the uninitiated are those words you see sometimes with the # symbol in front of them. Many of my UK readers will have seen the #GE2017 hashtag these past few weeks on Twitter. Most people tweeting or posting on Instagram and other social media about…

Sep 12 2016

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An Apple for the teacher?

By Mark Anderson ADE

Are you a school or educator using Apple technologies? Chances are that if you are a school or educator with iPads or other Apple technology, you'll want some decent opportunities for CPD. If you're in this position then Apple have come up with something I'm confident you'll be interested…

Sep 03 2016

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Growth mindset for teachers

By Mark Anderson CPD

Originally posted on educationevangelist.com; as I move these things together onto ICT Evangelist, and given the popularity of the sketchnote I made about Growth Mindset for Students, I thought I'd migrate this post over today. Reflecting back on the ideas here, perhaps these are some things that you could think…

May 15 2016

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Get a rocket up your CPD

By Mark Anderson ICT 2 Comments

Continuing Professional Development (or Continuing Professional Self Development as Ian Gilbert discusses in his 'Why Do I Need a Teacher When I've got Google?' book... CPD has changed its appearance. Not a sheep in wolf's clothing. Not at all. But no longer is it about one of the senior leadership team…

Apr 01 2016

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The secret to successful use of technology in the classroom

By Mark Anderson CPD, ICT 11 Comments

There's so much talk of how to make successful use of technology in the classroom. Even just yesterday afternoon, friend and Assistant Principal of Surbiton High School José Picardo was asking what to me seems (sorry) a blindingly obvious (to me) question on Twitter: https://twitter.com/josepicardoSHS/status/715545811883593728 Of course we do is the obvious…

Feb 15 2016

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Beginner’s Guide to Twitter (the crib sheet)

By Mark Anderson Twitter 6 Comments

I wrote quite a long, detailed guide to Twitter for teachers back in April last year. It proved really popular, but it wasn't really staffroom fodder and didn't really fit onto a presentation slide either. With that in mind, I created a crib sheet version. I haven't included one of…