Progress Mat
Although the idea of “learning progression” is something to which all teachers aim – if there was no progress there probably wouldn’t be much point in the class taking place – one problem is that it’s frequently difficult to successfully and succinctly document progression, whether you want such documentation as proof of progress to an […]
Sociology A-level Student Feedback Form
From time-to-time teachers send me resources to share with other teachers. Which is nice. And also very useful because it’s odds-on that if you’ve developed a resource that saves you time or helps your students in some way, other teachers will find it useful too. This particular resource, created by Liam Core involves a couple […]
Further Five-Minute Feedback
Whatever teaching methods you use it’s not always easy to know whether your crystal-clear, carefully-crafted, teaching has actually been understood by all of your students. This is something I’ve previously addressed with the original Five-Minute Feedback Form that allows you to quickly and efficiently collect some very simple, useful, information about the most important things […]
Learning Mats: A Generic Version
The Learning Maps we’ve previously posted have rightly proven popular, both because of their quality and because they meet a need for tools that help students to structure their work in a simple and effective way – one that has the added bonus of providing a tightly-organised and highly visual method of revision. Good as […]
Structuring Actions: Classroom Discussion Strategies
One of the first things we usually teach students in Introductory Sociology classes is the idea that our actions are structured (the basic “roles, norms, values” etc. stuff) and classroom discussions can be an integral part of this teaching and learning process – encouraging students to think about what they’re learning and developing their knowledge […]
Really Simple Series: Five-Minute Feedback Form
Getting feedback from students can help you: Check student understanding at an individual level. Reflect on your teaching in terms of how lesson content is conveyed and understood. But it can also have practical and theoretical drawbacks: • In terms of the former, for example, it can be time-consuming to create and interpret. • In […]
Psychology: Teacher’s Toolkit
The Teacher’s Toolkit grew out of discussions and contributions on the old TES Psychology forum and while it’s been through a number of revisions this, I think, is probably the latest (2013) version. In basic terms it’s a massive (100-odd page) compendium of teaching ideas and activities aimed at A-level Psychology and loosely arranged around […]
Flipped Classrooms
The Flipped Classroom is something of a rarity in contemporary educational thinking and practice in that the concept is based on a reasonably-sound argument (at least as far as something like a-level study is concerned), namely that in an exam system designed to test a range of weighted skills (knowledge, understanding, application, evaluation…) it makes […]