In this new series of blog posts I am going to reflect on a different issue each week. These reflections will form part of my preparation for our weekly Teaching and Learning Breakfast. I’ll need to pick something to discuss each week and make sure […]
Inspired by this post by Dawn Cox I have tried to remember to take screen shots when I have been using the visualiser this week. I don’t think anything I am going to say here is ground breaking, not in the slightest, but I hope […]
As I say in the presentation, this is a reminder that Rosenshine’s principles are not: A list of things to include in all planning. The silver bullet that will solve all issues. They are however useful to help support your current teaching methods. They could […]
I’m coming clean. Online Bex and School Bex are two different people. In fact, School Bex doesn’t exist, it’s School Rebecca. Online Bex is confident, not confident enough to throw herself into discussions on Twitter too much, but confident enough to share views and the […]
This week Tom Rogers (Founder of things like TeachMeet Icons and Edudate) launched Edumate. Much like Edudate, there are those out there who are sceptical of the idea, but I wanted to blog to explain why I think it’s a great idea and something I […]
Recently there has been a huge spike in views of this post from 2018 where I shared a selection of retrieval practice starter activities which could be used in MFL lessons. At that time I was doing a lot of thinking and writing about this, […]
Ever since I started my teacher training I have been on Twitter. At the time there didn’t seem to be loads of trainees on there, but that seemed to quickly grow and now it seems to be more common for early career teachers to join […]
When you’re making a podcast and enjoy it as much as most of us do, it’s really easy to forget that actually most people don’t have a clue that podcasts are out there. So the aim of this blog is to let you know a […]
Over the last few weeks I have been writing and then delivering my presentation for the Chartered College of Teaching Early Career Conference. My topic was high expectations and motivation. In my session I tried my best to give a balance in terms of discussion […]
Over the last week or so, some podcasts I have listened to as well as conversation with colleagues has got me really thinking about our use of technology in the classroom. It’s a topic I’ve written about before, but that I wanted to consdier in […]
