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Multiplying fractions and integers | This is my classroom
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This is my classroom. Reading on Knowledge, Memory and Learning. Reading on Teaching Strategies. Modelling percentage change with Numicon. Single and multi clause sentences – an analogy →. July 24, 2015 · 10:07 pm. Multiplying fractions and integers. This is an account of a particularly successful topic from Y5 on multiplying fractions and integers. It’s fast becoming one of my favourite concepts to teach. I showed multiple representations of a calculation, showing how to make it with cubes:. When childr...
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Reading on Leadership | This is my classroom
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This is my classroom. Reading on Knowledge, Memory and Learning. Reading on Teaching Strategies. Know thy impact: teaching, learning and leading. Evaluating and improving our practice – a paradigm shift. The future of career progression in teaching. The 7 levers of highly effective school leaders. A collection of leadership posts. Replacing national curriculum levels. What makes a good observation? We go to learn, not teach. What if observations were only formative? Making lesson observations worthwhile.
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Joe Kirby | Back to the Whiteboard
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Back to the Whiteboard. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Author Archives: Joe Kirby. English teacher, education blogger. Teach First-ers publish Maths e-book. June 8, 2013. Perhaps no other school subject commands awe quite like mathematics. ‘Awe’ is an apt word, given that maths is both respected and feared in equal measure. Yet, it need not be this way, and what a subject it is to teach! This is an extract from the introduction to ‘ How To Start on Teach First: Maths’. June 5, 2013.
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Back to the Whiteboard | Evidence-based teaching practice | Page 2
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Back to the Whiteboard. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Newer posts →. 9 How can I get my students to want to achieve? July 1, 2012. Set a big goal for the class. Reluctant, disrespectful, recalcitrant, complacent, demotivated, disaffected or disillusioned: any or all of these adjectives may apply to the students you teach from September. So how can you even begin to turn this round, and get your pupils motivated to learn and succeed? It motivates them that you believe that they shoul...
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Combining Tradition and Innovation | Pragmatic Education
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Ideas are the currency of the 21st century*. Knowledge Organisers →. Combining Tradition and Innovation. March 21, 2015. Teachers who think knowledge, memory and practice have been neglected. In schools, tend to be seen as adamant traditionalists to quote one blogger recently,. The shock-troops of neo-traditionalism. Here’s how we combine tradition and innovation at Michaela. The danger of innovation, as Daisy Christodoulou points out, is that ‘. Nothing dates so fast as the cutting edge’. Take smartphon...
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Which knowledge? | Pragmatic Education
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Ideas are the currency of the 21st century*. Combining Tradition and Innovation →. February 28, 2015. I often ask pupils at family lunch at Michaela what their favourite subject is. Many of them reply, ‘. I love every subject, sir! What we choose to teach plays a big part in how much our pupils love learning. At Michaela, we decide which knowledge to teach based on three principles: schemata,. Roman Rhetoric, epic poetry and Shakespeare’s. Malcolm X’s autobiography, Duffy’s. A Long Walk to Freedom. In sh...
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Pragmatic Education | *Ideas are the currency of the 21st century* | Page 2
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Ideas are the currency of the 21st century*. Newer posts →. To Miss With Love: Summer Term, & OFSTED. April 10, 2016. In the final blogpost of a three-part abridgement series ( first here. Ofsted inspect Katharine’s school. A fight occurs during the inspection…. Ms Desperate, Furious’s foster mother, marches into my office and sits down with him. Ms Desperate looks as if she might cry. ‘What are we going to do? Are you listening to me? Did you hear what I said? As I walk through the playground with Dream...
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How could teaching become the foremost career in England? | Pragmatic Education
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Ideas are the currency of the 21st century*. What we can learn from Michel Thomas? Who will watch the OFSTED watchmen? How could teaching become the foremost career in England? February 16, 2013. Niccolo Machiavelli, 1532. 8220;Our greatest challenge is to make teaching. The most sought after profession in society”. Lord Andrew Adonis, 2012. Articulates his ideas with the same concision and conviction. In his words ‘largely forward looking, it sets out a manifesto for change for the next government t...
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What makes great teaching? | Pragmatic Education
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Ideas are the currency of the 21st century*. Why does London outperform England? How do schools succeed against the odds? What makes great teaching? May 11, 2013. Great teaching combines effective instruction with continuous improvement. If you can dream and not make dreams your master;. If you can think and not make thoughts your aim;. If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster. And treat those two impostors just the same;. If you can bear to hear the words you’ve spoken. Rudyard Kipling, 1892. There is ...
