Category Archives: CPD Notes

#TLT16: Final keynote

Posted on October 16, 2016 by sallythorne

Lindsay Skinner invites us to consider teacher presence in the classroom. Think about what moves a lesson from a cover lesson to a lesson: the teacher. Focus on the voice, the body, the person. What is it that makes one … Continue reading →

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#TLT16: Workshop 3

Posted on October 16, 2016 by sallythorne

Toby French on “Marking and assessment are not the same”. Why do we think marking is so important? We care. Read what students are writing, but it isn’t always necessary to mark all of it. CCTV for senior leaders – … Continue reading →

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#TLT16: Workshop 2

Posted on October 16, 2016 by sallythorne

Stephanie Keenan on wider reading: the 7 year plan. What do we want the ideal A-level student to look like? This needs to be built from year 7. We discuss what our ideal students would look like. Do we agree … Continue reading →

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#TLT16: Workshop 1

Posted on October 15, 2016 by sallythorne

Kamil Trzebiatowski is talking about EAL students and using academic language. As competent language users, we don’t see the language: it is like a window through which we look at the content. For children who struggle with it, the glass … Continue reading →

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#TLT16: Opening Keynote

Posted on October 15, 2016 by sallythorne

John Tomsett begins by recommending Better by Atul Gawande: …memories of teachers taking something and applying it without thought, out of desperation for a quick fix. There isn’t a quick fix. Dylan Wiliam clip: “Sharing good practice” is a bad … Continue reading →

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SHP15: Thompson and Kitson

Posted on July 12, 2015 by sallythorne

This session is about using one woman’s story to illuminate the recent past. We’re looking at Mavis Hyman, a lady born towards the end of the Raj. We start with a card sort of the events of her life, annotating … Continue reading →

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SHP15: fifth plenary

Posted on July 12, 2015 by sallythorne

Richard Woff is talking about teaching history with 100 objects (40 of which were picked with KS3 in mind). He explains that it was funded by the DfE whilst at the same time focused on providing an alternative to their … Continue reading →

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SHP15: Jenner and Nightingale

Posted on July 11, 2015 by sallythorne

The focus today is on how, and why, we should use extended original texts with all students. This is a topic I can fully support. We start by looking at an extract from the 1559 Act of Supremacy and discuss … Continue reading →

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SHP15: first plenary

Posted on July 10, 2015 by sallythorne

The first plenary is a presentation from the three English exam boards on their new GCSEs. Firstly is Mike Charman from AQA. He stresses the importance of teachers in the development of the specification. AQA has developed a single specification … Continue reading →

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TLAB15: Keynote 2: Barbara Oakley

Posted on March 21, 2015 by sallythorne

Oakley is a Professor of Engineering who is a visiting scholar in California and is speaking on the topic, learning how to learn. She starts by explaining that a favourite hobby of hers is to watch people, and how important … Continue reading →

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