I’m sure that we all use spreadsheets to collate student data. Some teachers will collect many pieces of data over a year. How do you calculate an average mark? I took some KS3 APP data (you can’t see it all here) and calculated the average in different ways. As you can see the method of […]
Category archives: Teaching
The Teaching Assistant’s toolkit
A few years ago I wrote a course for teaching assistants who supported students in (secondary) science lessons. The course was widely attended by colleagues from across our local authority. With the recent bad weather we decided to run a refresher course inhouse for our our own staff, since we have had quite a few […]
Copy and Paste Customer Service.
For a long time I’ve seen lessons where staff have used the internet. Teachers are getting better at finding ways of using the internet, but I still see lots of instances of straight copy and pasting. Is this a good idea? Over the last week I’ve been patronised by two different companies who have responded […]