Posts Tagged ‘planning’

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 [...]

Some Rights Reserved: Unit 1 model assignment update

9, Apr 2010

Back in September I released my OCR Nationals unit 1 course, solely on the website. Over the course of this year, my department and I have been putting additional resources together to plug the gaps in the initial release.
These resources are now being released on a Moodle course in my new resources area as well [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Pupil speak level descriptors

9, Jun 2009

The requests for ICT level descriptors in pupil speak continue to pile up on the TES forums, so I thought I’d make mine available for download. Personally, I think they make a lot of sense, and cover the array of ICT skills we ought to be covering in high schools very well, but at first [...]

Resources: lesson plan proforma & Bloom’s taxonomy for ICT

7, Jun 2009

I posted these a while ago on Twitter, but I think they deserve a repost. During my training year, I saw lesson plans as a hurdle to jump before teaching a lesson, but over the course of this year I’ve come to appreciate the value of an in-depth lesson plan. I put together a new [...]


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