The recent NFER report on teacher retention makes for some interesting reading. There is some encouragement in reading that: The majority of teachers are not considering leaving the profession. Half of teachers…
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Teacher retention – why do so many teachers leave or are thinking to leave the profession?
Posted in Blog, CPD Tagged with: CPD, Job Satisfaction, learning, Maths, NFER, Profession, Professional Development, Rewarding, School, Science, Senior Leaders, Teacher Retention, Teaching, Training
Minimal guidance versus guided instruction
There has been some controversy in educational research between promoters of minimal guidance and constructivist approaches to learning vs a growing group of educationalists who support guided instruction approaches. This blog post compares two studies that are diametrically opposite in…
Posted in Blog, CPD, GCSE Science Tagged with: Constructivism, Education, Evidence-based, Guided Instruction, learning, Long-term, Memory, Research-based, Short-term, Teaching, Working
TeachMeet Cymru – Supporting digital competency in the classroom
Why on our website? We have been organising TeachMeets in Cardiff ever since the first one in 2011 and we would normally upload the TeachMeet page on the TeachMeet wiki, but the wiki seems to be broken and we couldn’t upload…
Posted in Blog, CPD, TeachMeet Tagged with: Cardiff, CollaboratEd, CollaboratEd.org.uk, Competence, CPD, Cymru, Digital, Education, Educators, Food, Framework, Free, iMindMap, learning, Literacy, Numeracy, Professional Development, Refreshments, Show, Teachers, Teaching, TeachMeet, Wales, Willows High School
TeachMeet Cymru 2017 – Health and Wellbeing
We are sorry to inform you that this event is cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. We are hoping to run another TeachMeet in June at Willows High School, so watch this space. Why on our website? We have been organising TeachMeets…
New mathematical requirements in GCSE Science
We have been looking at the mathematical requirements for the new GCSE Science exams from September 2016, so we thought we’d share the mind map below we created to make sense of these requirements. The magnet, microscope and conical flask icons…
Does Academy = better academic results?
So Your School’s Turning into an Academy… As I am sure you all know now, the government has announced plans to turn every school in England into an academy by 2022. However, what does this mean for those with teacher…
Flipped Classroom Infographics
If you have ever considered using the Flipped Classroom, or if you want to learn more about it, this infographics shows some interesting findings. Created by Knewton and Column Five Media
Posted in Classrooms of the future, CPD, iPad Integration Tagged with: CollaboratEd, CollaboratEd.org.uk, CPD, Education, Flipped Classroom, Flipped Learning, Homework, learners, Teacher, Teaching, technology
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
Efficiency of a ball with Vernier Video Physics app!
Today we run some training at King Edward VI School in Southampton and among the activities our delegates were asked to run they had to measure the efficiency of a ball using the excellent app Vernier Video Physics. Check the…
Posted in Blog, CPD, Implementing, iPad Integration Tagged with: Ball, Camera, Class, Classroom, CollaboratEd, CPD, Creative, Data, Displacement, Education, Educators, Efficiency, Energy, Graphs, innovative, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, learners, learning, Motion, Numbers, Physics, School, Science, Teachers, Teaching, Training, Velocity, Vernier, Vertical, Video, Video Physics
iMotion HD – Lapse Photography and Crystal Formation
In this short post we want to show you what you can do with a pretty nice free app for iOS devices. iMotion HD lets you take time lapsed photos of anything you want and you can decide the interval…
Posted in Blog, Implementing, iPad Integration Tagged with: Activities, Chemistry, CollaboratEd, CPD, Creative, Enquiry, Ideas, iMotion, iMotion HD, innovative, Investigations, iOS, iPad, Lapse, learning, Outdoors Learning, Photography, Physics, Science, Teaching, Training
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