Ideas for Learning and Creativity #4

Creativity and Innovation This fifth post looks at ways in which students and teachers can improve the way they express ideas and communicate their understanding of key issues. I have also mentioned how cross-pollination into different spheres can help improve our practice as teachers – if you find this topic of particular interest please visit [...]

Engaging WEB 2.0 Tools to use in the classroom

One way of creating meaning and relevance behind stories is to use illustrations and photos of various kinds. An even more powerful way is to add sound to a story to really capture a particular moment or event. Imagine including all of these features and then being able to add them to the exact location [...]

Make it ‘Sticky’: how to create memorable lessons

Sticky = understandable, memorable and effective in changing thought or behaviour. Two big questions needs to be addressed by teachers each lesson: What’s the point of the lesson? Why should it matter – will it matter to the students? It may seem obvious to many but it can be easy to forget when you have [...]

Students as Teachers

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 [...]

Stories

Queen died and King died. Fact. Queen died and Kind died of a broken heart [E.M. Forster]. Story. Intrigue. Which one is the most memorable do you think – fact or story? Stories are inherent in us humans from the day we are born when parents or other loved ones retell fairy-tales, playground buddies sharing [...]