What a day today on #BettChat. Lots of engagement and ideas flowing. To help keep a record of the discussion, I took the tweets from the chat and added them to a Storify which you can read and check out below. It was as always a fast and furious debate…
Right. When someone asks you to write about your #teachinghighlight (thank you @ictevangelist) the first thought is “Ooooh. Thank you. Erm…what have I enjoyed? No. Not humble enough. What challenges have I helped my students with?” This reaction surprised me. The teacher ‘put yourself second’ double-take is normal teaching behaviour….
As you may have seen in my recent post I am moving out of the classroom to be able to work and support schools in a number of different ways. To help with this move I’ve just built a new website to showcase the sort of support that I am offering…
I read a lot of blogs. There’s some heady work out there. For example I just read a (yet another) great blog by John Tomsett on student-centred leadership. A subject close to my heart particularly given the work I did at Clevedon with the brilliant John Wells on student focused…
“I’ve seen things, you people wouldn’t believe. Ofsted inspectors laughing and smiling. I’ve watched children enjoying their learning near the end of term. All those moments will be lost in time, like so many tweets on a #hashtag. Time to blog.” Enough of the Blade Runner parody and time for…
I’ve been an Independent Thinking Associate for quite a while now. It’s a lovely community of some of the most respected and brilliant educators you could ever wish to meet. We get together a few times a year and if you imagine what the inspiration is like at a Teachmeet,…
I was at Bristol Brunel Academy’s ‘Never Stop Learning’ event on Thursday evening this week and was delighted to have been asked by its organiser, Stephen O’Callaghan (check his blog here too) to wrap up the evening with a plenary. I did so with the following presentation and video. The event was…
If you read my blog you probably know that I don’t really do technology for technology’s sake. I was recently asked to be involved in a Teachmeet by the lovely Nikki Gilbey (check her blog here too) with a technology focus and wondered about what to talk about. I had recently…
It gives me such great pleasure to host the following #teachinghighlight from someone I truly admire and respect. This post is by Jill Berry. Since Mark Anderson (@ICTEvangelist) published his post asking us to reflect on our teaching highlights, I’ve done a lot of thinking! I taught for 30…
I start my teaching day by feeding our sheep and pigs before setting up the day’s lessons in Land Studies. The department has been built up step by step over the last four years, and each stage has been a calculated risk. We started with Brian the hamster, to see…
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