I used a textbook…
Sunday, January 18th, 2009in six lessons last week… why not?
Archive for January, 2009
ICT across the curriculum
Sunday, January 18th, 2009Thanks to Rob Chambers for emailing me about this new blog, some useful ideas already related to SMART boards… which I’ll investigate over the coming weeks.
ICT across the curriculum
Saturday, January 17th, 2009Thanks to Rob Chambers for emailing me about this new blog, some useful ideas already related to SMART boards… which I’ll investigate over the coming weeks.
Animoto Update…
Saturday, January 17th, 2009Thanks to Alan for updating my presentation with the new features… (not sure what’s gone off with the first slide?)
[slideshare id=927324&doc=usinganimotoupdate-1232231283644368-3&w=425]
Animoto Update…
Saturday, January 17th, 2009Thanks to Alan for updating my presentation with the new features… (not sure what’s gone off with the first slide?)
[slideshare id=927324&doc=usinganimotoupdate-1232231283644368-3&w=425]
What I’m watching… The Wave
Saturday, January 17th, 2009I’m a bit of a film lover, watched The Wave this afternoon, German film based on the young adult novel ‘‘The Wave’ by Todd Strasser, which was based upon The Third Wave teaching experiment by Ron Jones in the 1960s.
History teacher takes an active approach to teaching autocracy… will be using it with my Key Stage 4 form for Citizenship purposes, the film not the experiment. 
Two mistakes…
Saturday, January 17th, 2009When planning this week I noticed a river domino had slipped into the weather and climate ones… glad I noticed that, because I was due to use them this week. Now updated.
Thanks also to Kenny for informing me about the broken link to the Extreme Environments introductory movie- should now be updated.
I do appreciate people informing me of mistakes and broken links.
Cheers.
I’ll try anything…
Saturday, January 17th, 2009to get my coursework handed in on time (deadlines no longer exist in the world of statistics)… Poems are popular at the moment due to Mark Cowan, so I emailed this to my students…
I’m sitting at my computer,
All lonely and dull,
Waiting for your coursework,
Which is now very overdue….
Hoping it will fall in my inbox,
Without a parental review,
Longing hopefully,
Waiting patiently,
Waiting for your coursework,
Which is now very overdue….
Getting itchy fingers,
Without work to grade,
Wanting to give out those higher grades,
Waiting for your coursework,
Which is now very overdue…
Wishing for your success,
Time will only tell,
Hope it comes by Friday,
Before it’s time to go,
Waiting for your coursework,
Which is now very overdue…
Getting bored right now,
Don’t know what else to do…
It didn’t work. 
The Year 7 issue…
Sunday, January 11th, 2009Like many schools we have been considering the adaptation of our curriculum content and organisation, to ensure the continued success of our students during the transition from primary to secondary education.
As a part of this I produced a piece of quantitative research ( 300 kb pdf ) about the experience of our present year 7 cohort, in order to see whether there were any specific trends related to the students that were struggling with the transition.
As part of my role, I’ve suggested teaching and learning strategies from the exercise. I feel rather than curriculum reorganisation, there are a number of potential practitioner based strategies, that could be used to ease the introduction of some our students into secondary education.
I wondered whether anyone would like to contribute their wisdom. Two points really.
- From your own experience do you recognise the conclusions I have drawn? Are the suggestions appropriate? Could you suggest others?
- Have you adapted the Year 7 curriculum to aid transition? How successful do you think the strategies used have been?
A little update with noughts and crosses.
Sunday, January 11th, 2009Not much to update this week, now that I’m into exam entries, records of achievements and reports.
I’ve updated the instructions on the noughts and crosses slide for weather, because I’d confused my right and left clicks.
I tend to use one strategy across a scheme of lessons, so I’ve also added examples for rivers and Antarctica.
