Ideas about learning, ICT and pedagogy

Great ’small’ ideas for making textbooks more fun

As fixed sources of information, textbooks are inevitably imperfect guides to a subject. Many are bound to textbooks as they provide a basis for discussion and for information gathering. In 1997 thousands of GCSE students aged 15-16 were asked which sources of information they trusted the most. The vast majority listed textbooks as the number [...]

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voluntary extra lessons

I taught in an inner city comprehensive where many of the pupils were not particulary driven or scholarly.

Initially I offered one lesson in the middle of the pre exam holiday to my A level pupils, partly because I thought it would be good for ‘morale’, and partly as I thought it would nudge them into [...]

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Visual Assessment

Using Active Learning techniques benefit students greatly as discussed in the introduction to this chapter, and creating opportunities for using this method with assessment really does produce excellent results.Students who work with assessments on this level eventually gain a concrete understanding about:

the various components of an answer;
how to build an ideal solution to a problem/question;
how/where [...]

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Students in charge of exam preparation

A good way to involve students in their own exam preparation is to get them creating resources, such as revision notes, which they can share with others online. Students enjoy taking responsibility over their own learning and giving them opportunity to discuss, write and share what they know about exams and revision is always appreciated [...]

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email bursts

It can be difficult to motivate students to revise before exams so getting them inspired to practice exam skills at home might be an even greater challenge. If we give them more bite-sized portions to work on at regular intervals, say 15 minutes, then it seems achievable without being too taxing for them.

Once such way [...]

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