Category Archives: CPD Notes
WLFS takeaways
As usual, I have spent some time today reflecting on what I can change about my practice following the WLFS conference. I can plan some short thematics for KS3 Elizabeth Carr’s reminder of Michael Riley’s development study, Toilets through Time, … Continue reading
WLFS History conference: workshop 3
Jim Carroll on interpretations at y13. His work is based on the NEA, which requires students to do independent research of at least 5 academic historians’ arguments, explaining why they reached different interps and their relative persuasiveness. Jim’s questions focus … Continue reading
WLFS History conference: workshop 2
Paula Lobo speaking about sources, who have been thinking about the challenge that we have to bring people to life in words. We discuss this briefly. When students are making inferences from sources, it is really tricky to judge what … Continue reading
WLFS History conference: workshop 1
Elizabeth Carr talking on planting perennials in the history garden: extending KS3 into GCSE. A year 7 starter activity to start! And one on toilets… Concerns about the new GCSE have encouraged Presdales history department to think about their KS3 … Continue reading
TLT17: Plenary
Lisa Jane Ashes asks, why are we still here? She is a self-confessed geek, but spent a year away from school as a child because nobody could tell her the point of going. After spending her first year as an … Continue reading
TLT17: Session 4
Owen Carter and Mike Slavinsky on knowing your impact. Some context: The Brilliant Club. PhD researchers are recruited to go to work with small groups of high potential students through the Scholars Programme; its twin, Researchers in Schools, places PhD … Continue reading
TLT17: Session 3
Mark Enser on challenge for all. How can we create the correct level of challenge without leaving anybody behind? How do we create a culture of evidence? How do we do this while leaving nobody behind? In 2015, Mark’s department … Continue reading
TLT17: Session 2
Kev Bartle on the chaos of coalition: trust, vulnerability and interdependence in schools. He suggests we pay too much attention to the apps in education, without looking at the operating system. We should look at changing the way we operate … Continue reading
TLT17: Session 1
Matt Pinkett on Feedback. “We’re spending too much time ticking, flicking and dicking about.” He will talk us through three methods of verbal feedback and give us an overview of the evidence base for written marking. Beginning with the latter, … Continue reading
TLT17: Introduction
Chris Moyse doing the opening speech at TLT’s 5th event. He starts with a book shelf…. He recommends the bottom left, a book about the All Blacks. My previous Head of Sixth did a series of assemblies based on this … Continue reading
High Dive Teaching 