Following my presentation at ResearchEd Rugby today I promised that I would get my slides online (see above download) and blog about the session. The slides won’t make a huge amount of sense without my notes, so here goes. I’ve tried to copy my notes […]
Recently I wrote about my work with retrieval practice, how it was going and what I was going to need to change. I mentioned some names of other teachers whose ideas I have seen on Twitter and Facebook and that I planned to integrate those […]
Last week I was lucky enough to be able to attend a two day conference with the Learning Scientists in Bedford, organised by Stuart Lock and Advantage Schools. It was a fantastic couple of days and I’ve taken loads away from it. I’ve just been […]
At the start of this year I took over a year 11 class at my new school. Year 11 is a tough time to take over a class and after their mocks I quickly realised that they’d forgotten so much of what they’ve learned so […]
This week I asked the #MFLtwitterati for their suggestions of starter activities that use retrieval practice, and as usual they did not disappoint. I had lots and lots of responses and the pictures that follow are all inspired by those replies. Some of these templates […]
(Photo above is my classroom, no I don’t teach German but also had no intention of rebacking that board!) When I was writing this blog earlier about what I’d like my idea year seven curriculum to look like I mentioned that I don’t think the structure […]
