I’ve advocated #ASEChat on Twitter before as a source of excellent CPD. If you want to know more about #ASEchat then check out my guide here and look at the official #ASEchat page here. Last night I moderated (if that is the appropriate term) a discussion about teaching electricity which made for very …
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Shortly before the summer holiday I went on a briefing session on the new Ofsted framework for school leaders. I’ve tried to tease out some of the most important issues for heads of department – as you read below remember that I’m not an Ofsted inspection and that I’m commenting on notes that I made …
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‘Differentiation is the process whereby teachers meet the need for progress through the curriculum by selecting appropriate teaching methods to match the individual student’s learning strategies within a group situation.’ Visser J, Differentiation and the Curriculum, Birmingham, 1993, University of Birmingham Differentiation is the responsibility of each and every teacher and should be a routine …
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I’ve a group of very weak students covering the EM spectrum. I just wanted them to have an idea of some of the different uses of EM waves so half the class did a collective memory activity and half did a jigsaw. Collective memory If you haven’t done one of these before you really should. …
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Role play is often overlooked or forgotten about in science lessons as a valuable tool that can aid student understanding – especially useful with SEN students. I thought I’d write about one of my favourite activities that I revisited this week, and how it helped with student learning and understanding. Double circulation role play Aim: …
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 …
As a special education teacher, I teach groups who have very poor social skills. One of my responsibilities as a science teacher is to get pupils to work together, both to improve these social skills and their science skills. Problems I face at the start of the lessons include pupils sorting themselves into inappropriate groupings, …
I bought an Avermedia CP130 visualiser to use in my science lessons, hoping it would extend the range of activities that I use the whiteboard for. I already have digital camera, microscope and flip video so this seemed like a logical extension. My first impression when I unboxed the camera was the wobbliness of …
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