Tag Archives: Teaching and Learning
Real Maths Challenge League Tables after Challenge 5
Some of you found that if you calculated the perimeter and area of the windows using centimetres, you ended up with very large numbers for the area. When you then tried to convert the area in square cm to square … Continue reading
Updated Real Maths Challenge League Tables
These are the two leagues that have had changes to them. See previous post for all other leagues. Philipa and I have been working on challenge 4, which is being emailed out to you as I type! Please encourage your … Continue reading
RMC League Tables after Challenge 3
Please contact Philipa or myself if you think you have a score missing from one of the challenges. Please ask your pupils to comment on how they are finding the challenges.
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The evolving role of the local authority in school improvement
The Association of Directors of Children’s Services Ltd (ADCS) is the national leadership association in England for statutory directors of children’s services and their senior management teams. The two reports by ADCS identify where local authorities have been successful in … Continue reading
Strategic ICT Leadership Programme 2012 (session 2)
Participants gathered at TICK (the innovation centre Keighley) on Tuesday for part two of the Strategic ICT Leadership Programme 2012. Once again, there was a palpable air of enthusiasm and this was reflected in the very high quality of … Continue reading
Reception NQTs share ideas in Keighley
Reception NQTs have been inspired in Keighley today with excellent training from a variety of Learning and Curriculum team consultants. The day began with focused science tasks with Claire Holt using ice, margarine, food colouring, Lego people and much more. … Continue reading
Pupil Progress Meetings – it’s about good practice
Teachers who don’t get it say… Teachers who get it say… There seems to be an idea that Pupil Progress Meetings are about data and assessment but are they really? If your PPMs are working, they will use data but … Continue reading
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Assessment for Learning and Subject Knowledge
What’s the problem – AfL or subject knowledge? We often think we know the answer to this but it’s actually not laways easy to tell. Maybe a class teacher is asking closed questions, not because they don’t know how to … Continue reading
Questioning
Questioning in class is a difficult thing to plan as most teachers ask questions naturally and without thinking. You can’t plan for all your questions as this goes completely against the point of AfL but you can identify some key … Continue reading
