Sweet Algebra. A model.
I’ve spent the last two years teaching maths – to Year & and Year 10. Finding a good model to help students grabble with algebra has often been a sticking point, especially once we started performing operations on letters; for some students this level of...
The National Baccalaureate for England is taking shape. @NatBaccTrust
Last week, the National Baccalaureate Trust board gathered at the Edge Foundation offices to push forward with our mission. We’re due to update our website very soon but already natbacctrust.org provides lots of useful information. In particular, this is useful...
Didau’s Taxonomy
Taxonomy is the science of classification. As such it’s useful for ordering items within a domain into different categories. Contrary to popular understanding, a taxonomy is not a system for developing hierarchies. In education, the word ‘taxonomy’ is most closely...
KS2 Writing: Moderated & Unmoderated Results
After the chaos of last year’s writing assessment arrangements, there have been many questions hanging over the results, one of which has been the difference between the results of schools which had their judgements moderated, and those which did not. When the...
Proper Acting for Proper Teachers
Here are the slides from my talk at the ResearchEd English and MFL conference on Saturday 1st April, at the University Examination Schools: Proper Acting for Proper Teachers PDF A jaunt through some essential drama teaching I presented a session on the ‘rules’ needed...
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