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Assessing Pupil Progress

13, Apr 2010

One of my department’s big focuses this year has been Assessing Pupil Progress, the new supplementary levelling structure for Key Stage 3. We didn’t have any idea what it was until our LA advisor, Pauline Hargreaves, gave us an excellent introduction to it in the Autumn term.
Key competencies
For those who haven’t yet got to grips with [...]

Free scheme of work for OCR Nationals unit 1

14, Sep 2009

Updated: click here for details
Good lord it’s been a long time since I made a post. The reality is that I’ve been working on this for about four months, in and around everything else that’s been going on. It’s now just about ready for release, so here it is.
What is it?
Some Rights Reserved is a [...]

Accessibility in e-learning

30, Aug 2009

A recent US Department of Education report concluded that “on average, students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction”. In the New York Times analysis of the report, Steve Lohr said:
Until fairly recently, online education amounted to little more than electronic versions of the old-line correspondence courses. That has changed with [...]

Engagement & ICT

20, Aug 2009

“So what do you teach?”
“ICT.”
“Oh, well at least the kids must find that interesting.”
- Opening to half a dozen conversations I’ve had with non-teachers.

We’re not in the ‘90s anymore, and sitting a kid in front of a computer generates little more excitement than sitting them in front of a toaster. In a society where computers [...]

Key questioning: don’t skip steps

4, Aug 2009

From firm foundations…
When I was training to teach, one of my tutors had a section on his lesson plan proforma entitled “vocab”. At the time, I wondered what possible reason there would be to have a vocab section for an ICT lesson plan – the kids know the vocab, right?
Early this year, my department ran [...]

Searching the web & information literacy

2, Aug 2009

One of the big rubs in this brave new world of technology-assisted education is getting students to realise that not everything posted online is true. With young children, even getting them to realise that search engines don’t actually provide you with information – rather, they link to websites that do – is very difficult. This [...]


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