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Field Testing ‘Teach like a champion 2.0’ | citizenshaw
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An education blog Tweeting @T74L. Things I’m reading and looking at. Field Testing ‘Teach like a champion 2.0’. March 7, 2016. Doug Lemov states that “great teaching is an art” and that “great teachers are are made and not born”. In version 2.0 of Teach Like a Champion, there is a deeper and more specific treatment of how to check for understanding and also some discussion on. To engage students in. And the ‘ Silver Arrows. I began a recent Y9 chemistry lesson with a ‘DO NOW’. In this lesson, I made R...
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Memory and learning on The Oregon Trail | citizenshaw
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An education blog Tweeting @T74L. Things I’m reading and looking at. Memory and learning on The Oregon Trail. March 9, 2016. What are the implications of this for learning? Much quoted cognitive scientist Dan Willingham asks: ‘What makes something stick in the memory, and what is likely to slip away? How can the memory system know what it’ll need to remember later? Oregon pioneers some years earlier. In an attempt to understand this, I looked at The Science of How We learn. And specifically as a. Conside...
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Reducing teacher workload- review groups feedback | citizenshaw
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An education blog Tweeting @T74L. Things I’m reading and looking at. Reducing teacher workload- review groups feedback. April 18, 2016. Nicky Morgan has accepted in full the recommendations made by three expert groups tasked with reducing teacher workload. Launched in July last year, the groups focused on the three areas flagged during the government’s survey of 44,000 teachers. As causing the greatest undue burden. The group believe that three principles. They al so point out that a. The commission note...
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Mr Lock’s Weblog. A blog about teaching – my job! Assessment – simple but not simplistic – part two. On June 4, 2016. Assessment – simple but not simplistic – part one. On June 4, 2016. Being a headteacher interviewee. On January 15, 2016. A Liberal Education and CVC. On January 14, 2016. Choosing the right school – to apply for headship. On January 9, 2016. The Cambridge History PGCE. On November 29, 2015. What do you say when you’re new to a school as head? On September 6, 2015. On August 4, 2015.
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Liberal Arts Conference. October 14th 2014 | Mr Lock's Weblog
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Mr Lock’s Weblog. A blog about teaching – my job! September 3, 2014. Liberal Arts Conference. October 14th 2014. I’m delighted and very nervous to be speaking at this conference at Kings on 14th October. TES and THE are proud to be media partners for this event and we are very proud that they are too! The conference will be free to attend, we. 3,944 more words. Laquo; The Civitas report on OFSTED – Playing the Game. Promoting pupils’ personal responsibility – one idea. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. You are...
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Revision: Advice for parents | Mr Lock's Weblog
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Mr Lock’s Weblog. A blog about teaching – my job! December 2, 2014. Revision: Advice for parents. We’ve recently rewritten our (42 page) booklet giving advice to parents on how best to support their children in advance of examinations. This booklet use to contain advice on post-it notes, making up songs, sticking posters to the ceiling above their bed, and hundreds of other strategies, many of dubious efficacy. Helping your child to revise. Our mantra for revision is to recap and practise. Research shows...
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It’s the behaviour, stupid! Turning a tough school into a good school | Mr Lock's Weblog
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Mr Lock’s Weblog. A blog about teaching – my job! November 1, 2013. It’s the behaviour, stupid! Turning a tough school into a good school. This post is about what we did . I’ve written about behaviour a few times before, most recently. After seeing Tom Bennett speak at the Festival of Education at Wellington. To get a 4 to a school with an argument for a “good” judgement. To say I work in a school in challenging circumstances is understating the case significantly. In the Year 11 cohort that just lef...
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Promoting pupils’ personal responsibility – one idea | Mr Lock's Weblog
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Mr Lock’s Weblog. A blog about teaching – my job! September 5, 2014. Promoting pupils’ personal responsibility – one idea. I am not a huge fan of. It’s not that I think there are no benefits, and I’ve seen a large number of case studies that claim to have used student voice to transformative effects – especially in the. This idea isn’t far away from student voice but I recommend it from my experience so far. In December 2013 I visited Greenwich Free School. It wasn’t that they were just compliant our pup...
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Updated Progress 8 guidance (Feb 2015) | Mr Lock's Weblog
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Mr Lock’s Weblog. A blog about teaching – my job! March 4, 2015. Updated Progress 8 guidance (Feb 2015). It’s worth reading the background to this in a previous blog I wrote here. This broadly stands, and I won’t be repeating the detail here. A week ago, the DFE published some new guidance. Not much has changed. From my understanding, the following aspects are additional or changes:. This explicitly says that Progress 8 will be the. 8220;Expected progress” as a measure will not exist from 2016. 8211; If ...
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