Exams can be tricky to monitor. Particularly when you have a slightly shifty group of students. Particularly when said group is in a room that doesn’t have enough space for them to all sit individually.
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Exams are tedious, especially when they are long. With my 15 classes, I’ve had about 19 hours of exams and controlled assessments in the past few school weeks – that’s a lot of time spent invigilating, as they call it…
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Planning an effective student-lead revision lesson can be a challenge. We sometimes feel that the best way to make sure they understand everything is to re-explain it all, or that we need to leave them to their own devices to…
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I have a class of year 10 students who are often quite vocal with their opinions. Not all of them of course, but about 3/4 of the class are happy to tell you whatever is on their mind, at any…
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Teachers are strapped for time. You know that already. It seems like every term some new task is added to our plates. We are constantly being asked to do more administration, more data entry, more reporting, more justification of our…
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In order to preserve my voice and sanity, every now and then I’ll give an entire lesson over to the students to do independent research.
This isn’t random ‘here is a topic loosely related to the content’ research
This isn’t a usual worksheet on which they need to answer questions from a specific website.
It’s not even a webquest.
It’s the students learning the content through independent research.
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Heads up – this is a bit of a long post. I really want to share with you the things I am learning. I really miss learning, and this stuff is good learning. I spent the last 15 minutes of…
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Today we had a very enjoyable PD session. Our school has a small farm, reptile room, rodent room, and forestry. There is a whole department dedicated to this, along with associated subjects and extra-curricula clubs and activities. We had the…
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