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TLAB13 first workshop: John Mitchell

Posted on March 16, 2013 by sallythorne

A History session, John is talking about signposting progress and promises we will all have something we can slot into our lessons straight away. There is certainly a good booklet of stuff to take away. Make you lessons ring: Relevant, … Continue reading →

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TLAB13 Keynote 1: Alistair Smith

Posted on March 16, 2013 by sallythorne

50,000 chunks: how we become experts and what it means for us. Great teachers interleave different strategies. Alistair implores us to reclaim language from Ofsted: make teaching pupil-centred again. We look at the numbers of hours needed to become experts … Continue reading →

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#TLAB13

Posted on March 16, 2013 by sallythorne

I’m at the Teaching, Learning and Assessment conference in Berkhamsted today, organised by Dr Nick Dennis. Like SHP last summer, I will be attempting to liveblog each of the three keynotes and three lectures I attend.

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Top Down Planning

Posted on February 6, 2013 by sallythorne

According to Carole Dweck in her book Mindset, having higher expectations of people can lead to improvements in their levels of attainment. Believing there is a ceiling to one’s achievement creates a ceiling to one’s achievement, the argument goes. In … Continue reading →

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Adventures in AfL: Piecemeal Assessment

Posted on October 21, 2012 by sallythorne

I decided to try something new with year 9 assessment this term. We study World War One, this term, with the question, “Why did men stand and fight in the First World War?” I gave them the assessment sheet, that … Continue reading →

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#SHP12 – Presentation link

Posted on July 8, 2012 by sallythorne

So! SHP is over for another year. We managed to get #SHP12 trending on Twitter last night during Ian Dawson’s session which was quite exciting. In fact, the top three trends were education related last night: lots of teachers getting … Continue reading →

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Workshop E

Posted on July 8, 2012 by sallythorne

John Stanier: Mastery Learning in a Linear Universe. The key tenet to this is that children can’t move on to the next thing until they have mastered the first thing. John explains the impact Hattie’s Visible Learning has had on … Continue reading →

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SHP Sixth Plenary

Posted on July 8, 2012 by sallythorne

Chris Culpin: 40 years on – what do young people need from history now? Before Chris, notices. Carenza Lewis shares the finds from a test pit dug behind a halls here. We are directed to Lifelonglearning.org.UK – Euroclio conference, 7-13 … Continue reading →

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SHP Fifth Plenary

Posted on July 7, 2012 by sallythorne

Ian Dawson with tabards on a Saturday night. Don’t anticipate this post being long as I hope to be donning a tabard! Looking forward to the magician’s show, “when we cut the Ofsted inspector in half”. “It might be history … Continue reading →

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TM SHP Edition 2

Posted on July 7, 2012 by sallythorne

Dan Lyndon has been working on a project with the British Museum to create some materials to go with their Indian artefacts. More on this at the SHP conference in London on November 24th. Students looked at warrior helmets and … Continue reading →

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