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My First Blog Post
Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.
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Weaving together the threads of a topic
Over time my lesson planning has gone through a number of iterations from ‘the three part lesson’ to ‘engage and excite’ to ‘enable don’t direct’ and ‘what will they be doing’. Recently the biggest changes have been around my increased understanding of how we learn and the plethora of teaching strategies based around our improved knowledge of cognitive science.… Read more
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I don’t like rollercoasters!
Adrenaline does not impress me. I prefer to be calm and in control as much as possible. To achieve this as a HOD, I have set up systems and routines for my lesson planning which I will share here. Medium-term planning (termly). For this I use an excel spreadsheet with a tab per class and the dates down… Read more
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