I have a blogging conundrum. Like many others, the edu-blogger-twitter-sphere has had a huge impact on my teaching philosophy and practice. In a bid to join the fun, I started this blog just over a year ago. Recently, I've been... Continue Reading →
For some reason my Facebook feed has been dominated by little videos from the DfE advertising teaching as a career. They’re all quite similar, featuring some young, fresh and sparkly eyed 20-something talking about how wonderful teaching is as a... Continue Reading →
Richard Feynman was one of the greatest and most influential physicists of all time. Awarded a Nobel Prize in physics for his work on quantum electrodynamics, his academic career included working on the Manhattan Project and with Nasa investigating the... Continue Reading →
I've been reading into the difference between novices and experts in different domains. Most of my reading has been about students but I found this fascinating paper via Harry Fletcher-Wood that I thought people might be interested in. Borko &... Continue Reading →
UPDATE 6/12/18 John Lindley was kind enough to share his versions which you can find here and cover the GCSE RPs. I've also written an article about running practicals which you may find useful here. UPDATE 5/6/18 I now have... Continue Reading →
Rosenshine's Principles of Instruction have probably had a bigger effect on my teaching than any number of CPD sessions, lesson observations or blog posts. To me they represent masterful, systematic teaching geared and optimised to enable long-term learning. I wanted to share... Continue Reading →
One of our student teachers had a bit of a difficult time in a Q&A sequence at the beginning of the lesson. As part of our subsequent discussion, we looked at the difference between encoding and retrieval and how the... Continue Reading →
This is not a particularly exciting post, but I think it's an important one (and it'll probably be my last for a while). A lot of people online have been trying to build science resources featuring SLOP: Shed Loads of... Continue Reading →
There are a lot of teachers, like myself, who have a growing interest in psychology and its application to the classroom environment. I can't speak for anyone else but my studies in this area have been completely "student-led" and are... Continue Reading →
A Chemical Orthodoxy 