Just came across an excellent blog by Joe Dale. It may be geared towards the teaching of Modern Foreign Languages but much of his content and ideas are easily transferable to other subjects. There are a several good ideas for using podcasting which I particularly liked : ) . This blog is certainly worth subscribing [...]
Students create revision movie
December 3, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Gavin Jolly’s students helped to write, film and produce a fantastic revision DVD. See clips from the DVD here: Medicine through Time Revision Part 1 from johannes ahrenfelt on Vimeo. Updates and article to follow on Staffroomproject.com
Independent Learning Projects in practice
December 2, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Experiential Learning and the teacher as facilitator Carl Rogers investigated the relationship between teachers and students and found that approx. 25-30% of students are self-directing, the rest will do just what they are supposed to do. He recognised two types of learning: cognitive, the memorisation of different things and experiential, the applied knowledge that comes [...]
Great ‘small’ ideas for making textbooks more fun
November 25, 2008 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
voluntary extra lessons
November 17, 2008 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
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