Managing behaviour with ClassDojo Have you ever tried ClassDojo as a behaviour management tool? It is fun, easy to use and it offers quick lines of communication with parents, so what more could you ask from it? My boys’ teachers use ClassDojo for…
Year: 2014
Too quick to see?
This is a lovely demonstration that Keith Gibbs did last night in Chipping Campden school. You cannot see the elastic band hitting the paper at normal speed, but when I rendered the video digitally at 1000 fps using the SLOPRO…
Posted in iPad Integration Tagged with: Apps, Chipping Campden, CollaboratEd, CollaboratEd.org.uk, CPD, iPad, iPhone, Physics, Science, SLOPRO
What does innovative science teaching look like for you? #ASEChat summary 12th May 2014
It was again a pleasure to moderate #ASEChat as @asober tonight. The topic was “What does innovative science teaching look like for you?”. Below is a custom timeline generated from the chat and embedded in this Blog post. I really like custom timelines and if…
Posted in Blog, CPD Tagged with: #asechat, @asober, Association for Science Education, Chat, Classroom, CollaboratEd, CollaboratEd.org.uk, CPD, Custom Timelines, Education, innovative, learning, Routines, Science, strategies, Teaching, Twitter Posted in Blog
Peer Coaching – The GROW Model
The GROW model is one of the best known and most effective frameworks to help coaches frame powerful coaching questions for their learning partners and it is formed of four stages. These are GOALS where the coach is helped in…
Posted in CPD Tagged with: Coaching, CollaboratEd, CPD, Development, Education, Effective, Goals, GROW, learning, Mind Map, Model, Options, Peer Coaching, Professional, Reality, Success, Teachers, Will
Peer Coaching – Active Listening Toolkit
Today I had the privilege of working in Chipping Campden School, one of our excellent Training Centres, on Peer Coaching. The SLT is seeking to introduce a Peer Coaching programme in the school and I had the good fortune to…
Posted in Blog, CPD Tagged with: Active, Clarifying, CollaboratEd, CPD, learning, Les Foltos, Listening, Mentoring, Padlet, Paraphrasing, Peer Coaching, Powerful, Probing, Questions, Toolkit, Training
What routines do you use in your classroom? #ASEChat summary 10th March 2014
It was a pleasure to moderate #ASEChat again as @asober last week. Sorry it has taken so long to upload, but I have been rather busy in the last few days. I have, as usual, generated a custom timeline from…
Posted in Blog, CPD Tagged with: #asechat, @asober, Association for Science Education, Chat, Classroom, CollaboratEd, CollaboratEd.org.uk, CPD, Custom Timelines, Education, learning, Routines, Science, strategies, Twitter
Developing numeracy every day through group work
I was reading this great Blog post by @MiddleWeb this morning about effective group work and the first idea at the top immediately made me think of a really effective way that this could be used to develop numeracy whenever…
Numerical Reasoning Loyalty Cards
Last Thursday I was in the least technology based TeachMeet I have ever attended, #TMBristol. I was very surprised to discover the low tech theme, since @ICTEvangelist was one of the organisers, but I am glad he went for that,…
Posted in Blog, CPD Tagged with: AfL, Assessment, Classes, Classroom, CollaboratEd, CPD, Development, Education, Framework, learners, learning, Literacy, LNF, Loyalty Cards, NSP, Numeracy, Numerical Reasoning, Oracy, Recording, Self Assessment, Skills, Students, Wales
Numerical Reasoning for a medieval master mason
Following from my previous post on Minecraft and Medieval Castles I have been thinking about other ideas to support numerical reasoning through the theme of medieval castles and using Minecraft. This time I started from a question I created in this…
Posted in Blog, CPD, iPad Integration Tagged with: Area, CollaboratEd, CPD, Experiences, Fractions, Framework, Games, Gaming, iPad, Literacy, LNF, Maths, Minecraft, Numeracy, Numerical Reasoning, Percentage, PowerPoint, Questions, Ratio, Resources, Support, Tests, Training, Wales
HiCortex Brainstorming
Today I came across a fantastic new tool for online and collaborative brainstorming. It’s name is HiCortex Brainstorming and the highly energetic and inspiring Roger Hiscott (@rhncafc) told me about it today. I have already tried and loved DropTask, that comes…
Posted in Blog, CPD Tagged with: Brainstorming, Classroom, CollaboratEd, collaboration, Collaborative learning, CPD, HiCortex Brainstorming, iMindMap, learners, learning, Linoit, Padlet, Professional Development, School, Tools, Training Experiences
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