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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Thinking of what to write about this week was a struggle. Everything I wanted to talk about was negative, and I’m tired of everything being negative. I don’t want to sound like a whiny, helpless, negative person. I wanted to…
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This year my current school made the decision that the KS3 classes (years 7, 8, and 9) would be split into Biology, Chemistry and Physics. Each class would be taught by a different teacher, and be timetabled individually, in an…
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Emily has backgrounds in science and science communication, and made the jump to teaching in 2014. She has spent the majority of her time teaching in Australia, but spent a year teaching in London. Back in Australia now, she is expanding…
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I confess – I am somewhat confused by our education systems. I know, I know. We all are. We all are confused by about possibly 10,000 different things in our education system. There is one thing that confuses me more than…
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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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