Science experiments at home

On June 17, 2017 By Every day is a school dayIn ResearchLeave a comment

How about getting some students to try experimenting at home. Could learn a lot – but then on the other hand……

http://scifun.chem.wisc.edu/homeexpts/homeexpts.html

Interleaving

On June 17, 2017 By Every day is a school dayIn AfL, Closing the Gap, Differentiation, ResearchLeave a comment

Interleaving is something many practitioners are looking to help students retain more knowledge to help them with the new GCSEs. Here is a blog looking at it.

Spacing, Interleaving, the Testing Effect and Distributed Practice (the Diet Coke version)

Direct instruction

On June 17, 2017 By Every day is a school dayIn AfL, Closing the GapLeave a comment

Here is a blog about direct instruction. This is a technique favoured in some parts of the USA and Australia and sounds straight forward but is anything but as it needs very high levels of consistency. The use of non-examples here is intriguing though.

Six tips to improve your explicit teaching

The difference between assessment and feedback

On June 17, 2017 By Every day is a school dayIn AfL, Marking and FeedbackLeave a comment

There is a clear difference and David Didau makes this point and it is worth remembering.

Feedback and assessment are not the same

Questioning templates

On June 17, 2017 By Every day is a school dayIn EnglishLeave a comment

From @reflectingenglish

“Over the past few months I have been putting together an exhaustive list of what I call ‘analytical question templates’. These are generic question structures that provoke analytical and critical responses to texts. They are useful to English teachers but probably not to anyone else”.