Author Archives: sallythorne

TLAB15: David Fawcett

Posted on March 21, 2015 by sallythorne

David is talking us through creating a coherent curriculum that sticks. It rounds off a day of thinking about improving retention of knowledge and skills. We start by discussing some questions about how we prep students for their exams – … Continue reading →

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TLAB15: Neal Watkin

Posted on March 21, 2015 by sallythorne

Watkin is taking about what makes good learning in History. He starts with some video clips of students sharing their knowledge. J knows loads and loads, but his written work isn’t good. R can structure a really good written answer … Continue reading →

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TLAB15: Elizabeth Carr

Posted on March 21, 2015 by sallythorne

Carr is talking about the relationship between knowledge, progress and assessment in History. She shares the department’s discussion on models of progression. The departmental vision: inspired by the past, learning by enquiry, winning the arguments. They have been reflecting on … Continue reading →

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TLAB15: Keynote 1: Sarah Jayne Blakemore

Posted on March 21, 2015 by sallythorne

I love Blakemore’s sessions! This year’s theme is “All in the mind” so she is ideal to open the conference. She begins by talking about adolescence as a concept, suggesting that some people think it is a modern construct; however … Continue reading →

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What I’m Teaching This Week

Posted on March 16, 2015 by sallythorne

I read some blogs recently under the 28 days of blogging hashtag and it struck me that I quite often think a lot about blog posts, mentally compiling them during my commute, but very rarely put anything down. Now, I’m … Continue reading →

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American West revision: Three Truths and a Lie

Posted on March 2, 2015 by sallythorne

I created these quizzes to use with my Y11s last year and have just got round to writing the answer sheets to go with them. Each question has 4 facts, one of which is, in some way or another, not … Continue reading →

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Christmas History Lessons: William the Conqueror

Posted on December 17, 2014 by sallythorne

I’m following Richard Kennett’s quest to ensure there is no let up to the beautiful acquisition of history knowledge, in spite of the festive season being upon us. As last year, Y12 have done their Fascist Christmas Dopolavoro program (this … Continue reading →

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#12JoysofTeaching – Day 2

Posted on December 2, 2014 by sallythorne

There’s a nice thread of positivity going on Twitter at the moment, tagged the #12joysofteaching, and brainchild of Claire Lotriet. There are daily prompts; today’s is inspiring, memorable teachers. I couldn’t squeeze that into 140 characters, so here are mine. … Continue reading →

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Fame at last!

Posted on November 9, 2014 by sallythorne

It was a bit of a shock when I checked my phone at lunchtime on Wednesday, to find I had emails about my blog, a WordPress notification about a spike in stats, and a few dozen notifications from Twitter. I … Continue reading →

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Adventures in Assessment #1

Posted on November 6, 2014 by sallythorne

I have developed a pathological hatred of timelines. My old colleague, an extremely bright and gifted historian who has since left teaching to pursue a slightly mysterious career path, loved a timeline. Our schemes of work are littered with them, … Continue reading →

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