ILM Coaching and Mentoring Unit 500 (1.2)
Understanding the Skills, Principles and Practice of Effective Coaching and Mentoring within an Organisational Context The first of three unit submissions, Unit 500 requires learners demonstrate an...
View ArticleILM Coaching and Mentoring Unit 500 (1.3)
This is the second of two post sharing extracts from my ILM Unit Coaching and Mentoring Unit 500 submission. Section 1.3 requires candidates to present “the business rationale for either coaching or...
View ArticleWhat matters most?
I have, on occasions, referred to this blog as a “thinking-skip.” A space to transfer my thinking and thoughts for record or storage. A space to collect and curate thoughts/thinking, stories and...
View ArticleSunday trefoil 22.09
Over on the TES, Kai Vacher (Principal of the British School Muscat in Oman) is reminding us of the importance authentic leadership. That “strong and robust” leadership are less important than a “wise...
View ArticleSunday trefoil 29.09
Ahead of teaching Year 9s Dickens’s ‘A Christmas Carol’ and Year 8s Conan Doyle’s ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’ my first responsibility was to broadening and deepening my own subject knowledge. For...
View ArticleSunday trefoil – trust, culture and climate
Lack of trust makes simple work slow and easy work difficult. Joel Peterson The development of trust with organisations is an area of professional interest preoccupation. From the scientific...
View ArticleBack to the classroom
Your future hasn’t been written yet. No one’s has. Your future is whatever you make it. So make it a good one. – Doc Brown Back from Dubai and back in the classroom at a medium sized, growing,...
View ArticleSunday trefoil
I am sticking to my Sunday trefoil. Three learning, reflective moments from the past week worth sharing. This week, monstrous world records, school improvement top ten and #BrewEd signpost. There is an...
View ArticleSunday trefoil – teach, sleep, and ResearchEd
So far, I am sticking to my plan to record three things I learn or encounter each week. This week I was reminded about the Protege Effect or ‘learning by teaching.’ I first encountered this strategy as...
View ArticleHow did I miss the importance of sleep to learning?
Given what I have learnt this week about about the importance of sleep to learning, to our well-being, it’s omission from past revision sessions and assemblies as a key strategy was a mistake. Here is...
View ArticleParents are partners – The importance of sleep
Being a parent of a Secondary student for the first time this term, has been an insightful experience for me as a teacher. Like many parents we are experiencing new parenting duties, sometimes less...
View ArticleMaking complex themes in texts accessible
Anything that is abstract is hard to pin down. Then, add to the fact,that the very abstract thing you are trying to pin down, remains in constant flux. Think of a real world map, where the borders keep...
View ArticleUpping the Anki for revision
We are entering a two mock cycle at our school. A full revision programme is underway; assemblies, revision packs, past papers, focused tutor groups delivering literacy and numeracy sessions*, revision...
View ArticleSuccess-motivation-success
Teaching is messy and learning so difficult to pinpoint, that teaching has to be responsive. The list of potential variables that may / or may not influence a student learning quite probably...
View ArticleAnki Decks in demand
Here is a quick update and early reflections on the four mini Anki App memorisation projects. Year 11 Upgrade (1) Students had just sat their first English mock paper. On the back of that sobering...
View ArticleAudio Cards for your Anki Decks
So I spent most of the Saturday learning how to build audio into my Anki Decks. Driven by thoughts of how to best support students with English as an additional language whilst also targeting students...
View ArticleSunday Trefoil 10.11.19
This weeks trefoil reflects the time I have invested in Anki (spaced retrieval learning) app, explores one view of my teaching that is being consolidated and an interesting approach to exam...
View ArticleSunday Trefoil 17.11.19
A weekly update is proving demanding. Because teaching is demanding (and equally rewarding.) This week I planned, taught, read around the authors of the text I teaching, compiled Youtube Playlists,...
View ArticleYoutube playlists for teachers (and students)
Curation of learning content via Youtube (and other channels) is one of the best ROI (return on investment) activities you can offer as a teacher to you students. First – your students are often all...
View ArticleTrefoil 24.11.19
Three short reflections If you are interested in the development of trust and discretionary effort with your organisation, I recommend Ted Interview with – Frances Frei. Francis is a professor at...
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