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ResearchEd: Opening session

Posted on September 7, 2013 by sallythorne

The primacy of the classroom. Good, modest teachers are the only thing essential for a good school. Teachers ambitious for their pupils, who still listen and learn. All mentioned in the opening speech from the principal of Dulwich College. Then, … Continue reading →

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ResearchEd 1: Carol Davenport

Posted on September 7, 2013 by sallythorne

Carole’s session is a cut down version of what she does at the National Science Learning Centre with teachers preparing to do action research. It’s packed out! Action research isn’t a randomised control trial – it’s one person doing something … Continue reading →

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What happened at Peterloo…

Posted on September 6, 2013 by sallythorne

Earlier this year, I was preparing to help my Y11s study the Peterloo incident for their January module. Since it was a source-based paper they were sitting, I spent quite a long time online in an effort to provide them … Continue reading →

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No Pen Day: Sock puppets, Roman villa tours and Simon Schama mimicking

Posted on July 12, 2013 by sallythorne

Last year in June I organised a No Pen Day at school to encourage teaching staff to make use of some of the technology we had access to, much of which had been languishing, unloved, or booked out to the … Continue reading →

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My year in CPD

Posted on July 9, 2013 by sallythorne

The last time I filled in an application form I found myself rifling desperately through several years’ worth of wall planners in order to accurately complete the CPD column. Thus, it made sense to blog about it instead, so as … Continue reading →

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SHP: SOLO Taxonomy Workshop

Posted on July 7, 2013 by sallythorne

Lesley Ann McDermott (@LA_Mcdermott) and I ran a workshop this year on SOLO taxonomy. I’m sharing here our PowerPoint and the related resources which we shared at the session. I sometimes worry that things won’t make a great deal of … Continue reading →

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SHP: fifth workshop

Posted on July 7, 2013 by sallythorne

Steve Mastin, how do I avoid teaching to the test? Steve says that when he started teaching he went to a meeting about GCSE specs and it seemed to be one moan after another about how boring it was, and … Continue reading →

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SHP: last plenary

Posted on July 7, 2013 by sallythorne

Peter Mandler on History, National Life and the Curriculum Peter is a university lecturer at Cambridge. He admits he knows very little about history in schools, because he says there are too many people whose voices join the debate when … Continue reading →

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SHP: Teachmeet

Posted on July 6, 2013 by sallythorne

@johnmayo first, sharing a couple of helpful websites about teaching Irish history – Century Ireland from RTE and the Down Survey of Ireland on the Trinity College website, which shows land distribution in Ireland to help show colonisation, etc @davestacey … Continue reading →

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SHP: third plenary

Posted on July 6, 2013 by sallythorne

Michael Maddison, HMI, on outstanding leadership in history. Michael begins with some press headlines in the 6 months leading up to the publication of the new curriculum, and then invites us to identify the papers that have reported various headlines … Continue reading →

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