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Retrieval Practice in History
Storm days are the new snow days. It’s been three years since most of us prepared a full cohort of students for a full suite of public exams, so I’ve been revisiting my old lessons and revision planners. Here are … Continue reading
Teaching the thematic study thematically: a small research project (pt 2)
Welcome back for The Results. Just a reminder – the C group were taught Chronologically and the T group were taught Thematically. Speed of teaching There was no significant difference. The T group were slightly behind, but I attribute this … Continue reading
Teaching the thematic study thematically: a small research project (pt 1)
This blog post is very overdue. I spoke at ResearchEd Rugby last June and started writing it then, but – busy. So busy. However, I have more data now that Y11 have sat their mocks and it has prompted me … Continue reading
Supporting students with revision
Thinking about when I have needed to revise for exams in the past, I am aware of various behaviours I exhibit that get in the way of any actual revision. I agonise over which parts I should be revising first. … Continue reading
Resources for revising Crime and Punishment
Just reading back over my last blog post. “Less busy”, haha. Anyway, I have a couple of helpful things to share. The first is a set of Crime and Punishment flashcards I made for my Y11s. These are modelled on … Continue reading
Adventures in Assessments: Life After Levels
During the holiday, I came across Alex Ford’s advice to a new HoD whose school is introducing GCSE criteria to grade KS3 students. I think I have mentioned before that I am also in that boat; it was comforting to see … Continue reading
American West revision: Three Truths and a Lie
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
High Dive Teaching 