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What does innovative science teaching look like for you? #ASEChat summary 12th May 2014

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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

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Peer Coaching – The GROW Model

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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

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Peer Coaching – Active Listening Toolkit

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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

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What routines do you use in your classroom? #ASEChat summary 10th March 2014

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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

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Developing numeracy every day through group work

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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

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Numerical Reasoning Loyalty Cards

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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,

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HiCortex Brainstorming

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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

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Paired Reading with Puppet Pals

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If you are a teacher and you own an iPad you will have heard of a great app called Puppet Pals, especially if you teach in Primary School. One fun way I used Puppet Pals was with my four boys, 2,

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Peer Coaching Interview with Les Foltos

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On the 18th February we will moderate the Welsh Education Twitter chat #addcym and bring with us a very special and highly experienced guest, Les Foltos (Director of Educational Innovation at Peer-Ed). Les is a worldwide authority in Peer Coaching

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Custom Twitter Timelines – great fun and extremely useful

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When I first heard about the new Twitter Timelines that can be customised I immediately thought #asechat and other Twitter #hash tags chats. These custom timelines are a Moderator’s dream for a number of reasons, but you can use them

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