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 [...]
How to stay energized all year round
August 22, 2009 By 1 Comment
Summer holidays are great, that’s a fact. You feel rested, relaxed and you may even have the odd idea or two that you would like to try out when you return to the classroom at some point, but of course that’s in a distant future very far away? Suddenly the new term is upon you [...]
Make learning purposeful, memorable and powerful: part 1
March 4, 2009 By Leave a Comment
“The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind – creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers and meaning makers. These people – artists, inventors, designers, storytellers, caregivers, consolers, big picture thinkers – will now reap society’s richest rewards and share its greatest joys”. Daniel H. Pink[1] Teachers in [...]
Students as Teachers
December 31, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Encouraging independent learning with exam classes is hard. There is not time, they may not do the work and there is not time…time… It does take a while for students to learn to work on their own and it requires a lot of practice in KS3 for it to work effectively. However, the biggest problem [...]
The end of Test-ocracy
December 31, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Not quite. The debate over the value of measuring and testing intelligence has been fiercely debated in the press particularly around the time of GCSE and A-Level results, over the past few years. Arguments vary from suggesting that exams are becoming easier to they no longer serve any purpose. The number of exams is not as [...]
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