My Learning Journey: November 2015

Favourite Blogs

The Aperiodical

Mathematical Objects: Universe of cake - A conversation about mathematics inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Game of Logic. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett.
Mathematics, Learning and Web 2.0

Christmas Colouring and Drawing - A collection of Christmas colouring and drawing activities for the last days of term: Further Christmas resources are available on this page. KS3/GCSE On T...
Headteachers' Roundtable

Statement on Ofsted’s 2023-24Annual Report - Today Ofsted released the 2023-24 Annual Report. It is pleasing that the work of schools and colleges across the country has been recognised as serving chi...
Teach Like a Champion

Student Achievement Through Staff Culture: An Interview with Max Wakeman - Over the past year we’ve been learning from 40 schools in Walsall and Sandwell England. These schools, located outside of Birmingham in areas of unusuall...
Desmos.com

2024 Desmos Studio Math Art Expo - At Desmos Studio, we love learning and growth. Every year, we try to add new features to make Desmos more powerful, useful, and fun (check out our What’s ...
David Didau: The Learning Spy

Using hinge point questions in English - This post is an extract from Bringing the English Curriculum to Life. In order to teach responsively, teachers need to be able to quickly identify misconce...
reflectivemaths's Blog

Core Maths Workbooks – teaser - I’ve been a bit quiet on here recently and it’s mostly down to a large project I’m trying to pull together. I’m trying to make some student workbooks for C...
johntomsett

This much I want to find out about...Truly Great Teachers! - I have been thinking a great deal about teacher quality, inspired by the London researchED conference earlier this month. Since then, I have been plannin...
JustMaths

Post GCSE results … using ResultsPlus - This is "take 2" in writing this post so lets crack on (part 1 can be found here!) ... In the below I'll show you what I usually do every year but it doe...
cavmaths

Carnival of Maths #229 - Roll up, roll up, roll up and welcome to the two hundred and twenty ninth Carnival of Mathematics! 229 is a prime number, and that in itself is interesting...
headguruteacher

Time for a Sabbatical. I’m taking a break! See you in March! - At the end of this week I’m signing off from work for the next six or seven months. My wife is taking a sabbatical from her job as Deputy Head and I’m doin...
SurrealAnarchy

It’s OK to Teach Skills - Pretty much every subject studied in school requires the teaching of knowledge and skills. It would be mad to set up the two areas in opposition. Yet it ha...
The Echo Chamber

Passion! - The firebox
Scenes From The Battleground

Move along now - That’s it, I’m no longer posting to this site. New blog posts can now be found over on Substack at Andrew Old’s Education Battleground, or sign up to recei...
Pragmatic Education

Red Team: involve, don’t announce - Every September, headteachers around the world announce their annual improvement plans to staff. Most are pronounced. Few are involved. How can we as scho...
The Wing to Heaven

Moving to Substack - I’ve just set up a free Substack newsletter where I’ll be posting all my future writing on education and assessment. If you’ve already signed up to updat...
Leading Learner

Using an Assessment Decision Tree to align Students’ Reading Needs to Support by @ricketts_lara - Over the period from September 2018 to August 2022, Blackpool secondary schools engaged in a major whole school project to improve the reading ability of p...
dy/dan - Dan Meyer

Area Man Who Talks a Lot About Teaching Teaches His First Full Day in >10 Years - I have taught demo and observational classes regularly since I left full-time teaching but yesterday was the first time I taught every class for the day. L...
Finding Ways at WordPress | Finding Ways

Reviewing for a Test - There’s not enough time or humility for me to share my teaching fails, but here’s a test review routine that worked well with my students. I pass out the r...
MEDIAN Don Steward secondary maths teaching

Message from Don Steward's family - Don Steward passed away from Covid-19 on 3rd May 2020. Throughout his working life he was passionate about improving the teaching of mathematics and has ...
Mr Thomas' Blog

What’s wrong with Oak National Academy - One of the risks of any launch is hubris. You’re so excited about what you’ve done, and so keen to share it, that you oversell what you’ve done. You then...
Mr Barton Maths Blog

Beat the Nation – Week 1 (GCSE and SATs revision idea) - Beat the Nation is a structure I like to use for revision lessons. I use data from the 1000s of students across the nation who have answered questions fr...
missdcoxblog

RE Curriculum development - Following a discussion about curriculum in RE I thought I’d pull together a set of resources that may be useful. I’m happy to add as people recommend. Blog...
Maths Sandpit

359. Proportional steps - Just a quick resource upload today. I’ve written a step by step resource on how to construct algebraic direct proportion relationships, including the answe...
MissQuinnMaths

What Are You Thinking? - Compare the following: “First you add 4 and 20 and you get 24. Then you halve it and you get 12. Then you times by 8 and you get 96. Then put centimetres ...
Authentic Inquiry Maths

Start the Year with an Attitude Survey - Here in my part of Australia it is the end of Week 1, Term 1. Being a good teacher, I am always keen to get to know my new class quickly and to find out a...
Gowers's Weblog

Advances in Combinatorics fully launched - It’s taken longer than we originally intended, but I am very happy to report that Advances in Combinatorics, a new arXiv overlay journal that is run along ...
More than a maths teacher

Outset day - I’ve taught my last lesson, which was more of a milestone than usual because I’m not going back in September. It’s time for a change. I am officially ent...
Thoughts on managing variability

Data isn't always a demon - I've seen and heard quite a lot recently about data being a bad thing and driving high workloads. Indeed Ofsted nod towards this in their most recent frame...
Love Learning....

Call Out The Instigators… - Because there’s something in the air We’ve got to get together sooner or later Because the revolution’s here And you know it’s right… In the Ship and Mitre...
Reflecting English

The essential ingredients of great English teaching - Image: @jasonramasami What follows is an article I wrote for the latest edition of Teach Secondary. It is based on ideas from my book Making every English ...
When 140 Characters Isn't Enough

Top books of 2017 - Non-Fiction: This year I've found myself more and more drawn to ancient history. For some reason I'd always dismissed it as a bit dull compared to modern...
Justwondering

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Jo Boaler

Strategies for Learning Mathematics - The post Strategies for Learning Mathematics appeared first on Youcubed at Stanford University.
ideasfortheclassroom

Classroom display: Maths Word of the Week - So, in a flash of inspiration as I try to prettify my classroom ready for September I came up with this. A little crowdsourcing of ideas on Twitter and I’v...
Webs of Substance

Health Insurance in the UK - I was asked to review the methods of purchasing Health Insurance in the UK by my company as they were considering offering it as an employee benefit in kin...
Mary Myatt Learning Blog Feed

The ethic of everybody - ‘Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.’ Desmond Tutu
MsFindlater's Teaching Blog

Blogging I Miss You - Finding My Feet - See here for my first endeavours in to the blogging world :-) So, I knew for sure that I loved blogging and writing for an audience. I had made the leap...
Math Munch

Nautilus, The Riddler, and Brain Pickings - Welcome to this week’s Math Munch! Sometimes math pops up in places when you aren’t even looking for it. This week I’d like to share three websites that I ...
HuntingEnglish

Top Ten Tips for Behaviour Management - Most of my posts are about teaching strategies, the curriculum or the odd political rant. I have written very little on the subject of behaviour management...
ilovemathsgames

POTW - 🙂 1/7/16 POTW
Would You Rather?

Migration in process - For any future posts, and for all posts, please be sure to visit www.wouldyourathermath.com or www.wyrmath.com. Both of them will take you to the latest co...
Great Maths Teaching Ideas | Scoop.it

MathsWatch spaced-learning revision programme- Edexcel 1MA0 | Great Maths Teaching Ideas - William Emeny's insight: A week-by-week revision programme for Edexcel 1MA0 GCSE Maths students based on MathsWatch clips. Spaced learning to ensure reten...
All The News That's Fit To Math

Pizza Mogul - In Australia, Dominos Pizza have a site that let's you design and sell your own pizza. Interestingly you earn between $0.25 and $3.25 each time someone ord...
Musings of a mathematical magpie

The challenges of promoting a growth mindset - Carole Dweck’s growth mindset theory is powerful, compelling and liberating. I came across it in my first couple of weeks of teacher training during the...
Tom Bennett

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