Who Should Be On The New £50 Note?
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The Bank of England are creating a new £50 and they want it to feature someone who’s contributed to science. We can nominate who we think that should be. There…
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Why We Don’t Need Highlighters
Mark Enser recently drew our attention to a 2017 blog produced by @WHSmith and research behind using coloured pens in revision. It’s not clear who the author of the blog…
Teachers With Passion
With so much of the focus being on teacher wellbing and stress, isn’t it time we looked at wellbeing and passion? Teachers who are passionate about teaching and learning. They…
Newsround
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Are You A Potter Or A Poet?
There is no blueprint for being a teacher or Head teacher but there are ‘types’ we can identify. Terry Deal and Ken Paterson in Shaping School Culture (1999) see school…
No Cold-Calling Please!
No one likes cold callers do they? Cold-calling is a teaching technique used by many teachers as a way of drawing learners into conversations, discussions and activities. It refers to…
What Do The Best Teachers Do?
That could be a long list but there is one thing they all do: they go home early. I say ‘early’ but what I mean is they go home at…
Are You A Minimalist Teacher?
Teachers do too much. They take on too much. The job suddenly becomes too much to take. It feels like there is always a million things to do. Workload might…
Lest We Forget
Children will be learning a lot about Armistice 100 and why it is important that we ‘never forget’. 2018 marks the 100th Anniversary of the end of the First World…
The Disney Creativity Strategy
The Disney Creativity Strategy is a technique developed by Robert Dilts, a pioneer in Neuro-Linguistic Programming. He looked at the way Walt Disney was so successful at turning fantasies into…