Mr D was going over a Do Now quiz. One of the questions related to an advantage of wind turbines. After reviewing a couple of correct answers a student, Jimmy, asked Mr D about his own answer: "they don't pollute... Continue Reading →
In Lockdown 1.0, like every other school in the country, we moved to distance learning across the course of a weekend. As a department, we set work for students that we thought was appropriate and manageable, and tried to spend... Continue Reading →
You may have noticed I wrote a book recently. I've been shamelessly plugging it everywhere I can, and was enormously honoured to recently discuss it on the Mr Barton Maths Podcast. Craig Barton is a huge edu-hero of mine, and... Continue Reading →
When explaining something, it is crucial to: Regulate the flow of information Direct attention It's also important to give your explanations a sense of narrative flow, that you've mapped it out and thought hard about where you are going to... Continue Reading →
There's something magical about a silent classroom. Students are focused, heads are down, pens are busily scratching away. Participation Ratio is high, and you can almost feel the learning in the room. It's not so easy to achieve though, and... Continue Reading →
Dear teachers and school leaders. We are all exhausted. We’ve had two years of incredible instability and cannot wait to get the ship steady and have a period of (relative) plain-sailing. There are a number of people / groups using... Continue Reading →
This is my first blog in a while. Apologies for that; as well as struggling a bit with school stuff this year, I've been working on a couple of big projects, one of which you can read about here. If... Continue Reading →
Quick heads-up: this blog uses a lot of technical jargon that you may be unfamiliar with. The jargon springs from the work of Doug Lemov and Paul Bambrick-Santoyo, and if you wish to know more, there is a great summary... Continue Reading →
A little while back I published a blog where I had collected some of the videos I made for Oak during the first Lockdown. Those videos are no longer available, but people seemed to enjoy the post and I got... Continue Reading →
A Chemical Orthodoxy 