Careers lessons push up GCSE grades | BBC News
Teenagers taught about the world of work are more motivated to get higher GCSE results, say researchers. A careers charity study found pupils who heard directly from employers about the … Continue reading
Handy Tips to Make Students More Attentive | EduLearn2Change
How can you keep your students focused along the whole lesson ? Here are handy tips to make students more attentive and thus enhance their learning: Handy Tips to Make … Continue reading
25 Recycling Activities for the Classroom | WeAreTeachers
Help your students take recycling to a whole new level in your classroom with these inspiration ideas and projects. See the full list here: 25 Recycling Activities for the Classroom … Continue reading
Masking Behaviours
Thanks to our friends at GoZen! for this timely insight into behaviours and what might be underlying them: 8 Ways A Child’s Anxiety Shows Up as Something Else | GoZen!
Reluctant learners (students and teachers) and what you can do about them…
In any educational setting there will be learners who are not fully engaged in the learning process for a variety of reasons. If you have led an INSET session, you … Continue reading
Gamification: Changing the Ground Rules For Learning
Much has been written about the subject of gamification in learning. It covers a massive scope of developments. At one end of the spectrum is included artificial intelligence, online … Continue reading
Top 10 World Changing Events of the 20th Century from Cambridge University Press
A free, themed classroom poster each month from Cambridge University Press. Pin and print for use in your classroom! Classroom Posters on Pinterest | Cambridge University Press
The Power of Confidence
This is a useful exercise to try in CPD days. Ask your team to write down what they would do if they knew that they could not fail in their … Continue reading
Engaging with E-learning
Too often in education, Information Technology has been sold on its features. These may be very enticing all-singing, all dancing Technicolor elements, but at no point does it demonstrate achievable … Continue reading
Classroom Rules… Some Reasons Not to Have Them by David Tow | Edutopia
I’ve always thought the way forward is the self-regulated classroom where the rules come not from discipline enforced on the students, but from self-discipline displayed by them. This also highlights … Continue reading
Energy and Calm: Brain Breaks and Focused-Attention Practices | Edutopia
When presented with new material, standards, and complicated topics, we need to be focused and calm as we approach our assignments. We can use brain breaks and focused-attention practices to … Continue reading
The Direction of Travel in Educational Technology…
This article outlines the top ten trends in educational technology development. Some perennials remain in the list like Personalisation and Gamification, whilst others make the list by dint of new … Continue reading
Engagement Strategies from teachertrap.com
For those days when your batteries are low and you need to come up with some new learning strategies…
The Power of Positivity with Children
Another post to start the new academic year on a positive note. I like the spirit, if not the content of some of these comments. Looks a little like someone … Continue reading
What makes a ‘toxic’ environment? Part 3 | Ac-Ed
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This is part 3 of exploring and dealing with a toxic learning environment where we look at teacher retention. Part two is here I have mentioned that…
The Power of Positive Language
As the new academic year beckons, some thoughts on the language you use with students and the responses it elicits… Much of the response you generate from learners will be … Continue reading
Making a drama out of a TB crisis | BBC News
In National Capital District, one of the worst affected areas in Port Moresby, 62-year-old Rodney Kove is using drama to teach children about TB. Having studied dance and theatre at … Continue reading
Why Restorative Practices Benefit All Students | Edutopia
Punitive discipline can be harmful and unfair—restorative practices offer hopeful solutions. Did you know that a significant percentage of the achievement gap between students of color and white students is … Continue reading
Helping Students With ADHD Concentrate
If you have had students with ADHD in your class, you will appreciate the difficulties in getting them to focus and apply themselves to a task in hand. For some … Continue reading
What makes a ‘toxic’ environment? Part 2 | Ac-Ed
Originally posted on ace-d:
This is part 2 of exploring and dealing with a toxic learning environment. Part one is here It is easier to run away than stay and…
What makes a ‘toxic’ environment? Part 1 | Ac-Ed
Originally posted on ace-d:
I have written this article to address the debate around teachers leaving teaching and the stress levels of pupils presently being experienced and reported. It is…
Personalised Learning: It Isn’t All About Technology
Many have trumpeted the evolution of learning technologies as if they, and they alone will enable the development of personalised learning. That is a very restricted view of personalised learning … Continue reading
Recognising what motivates your team members is the key to successful learning projects
Until you can recognise what motivates the individuals in your team, you will never be able to reach their maximum performance and work in independent, autonomous and sustainable ways. This … Continue reading
How Books and Television Affect Your Brain Differently, According to Science
There’s a perception that books are good, while TV is bad. Spend a day curled up with a book and you’re an intellectual, but spend a day watching your favorite … Continue reading
A Case for Finger Counting | Edutopia
A study published in Frontiers in Education suggests that this may be a mistake because finger counting seems to boost math learning when paired with number games. Read the full … Continue reading
