Effective instruction is paramount for a successful lesson. It’s all very well planning a lesson, preparing all the resources and spending time making sure you have everything in place for a great lesson, but if our learners don’t understand what we want them to do and why, then more often than not, they won’t make […]
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Spontaneity can be positive in our every day life. We can act on impulse – it is fun – and not consider the consequences. But, is this really the right way forward in teaching? Unlike in our every day lives, where we may only need to think about ourselves, teaching is a position of responsibility.
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Why should we set goals? The dictionary defines a goal as the object of someone’s ambition, an aim or a desired result, and I would say that is very applicable to us as educators. As we enter our classrooms every day, we should always have goals and objectives running through our minds – that’s what
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As teachers, we often set students a task to complete. But, how do we end the activity? Is it right to just say ‘stop now, the class is over?‘ Although it is tempting to finish it this way, especially if we are running out of time, this does not promote any reflection. Students are unable
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It’s that time of year when the academic year is drawing to a close and students are preparing for their holidays, therefore it is a perfect time for reflection and goal setting. Independent Learning is not just a strategy that we can use in our classrooms to support our students – it is also highly
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When we teach our students, it’s very important to give them a purpose and an understanding about their learning. We all need to know why we are doing something and with this knowledge we can become independent and develop our skills. To that end then, we also need to know how to be successful. What
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Self-assessment is a very effective tool for the classroom to enable learners to develop and progress with a deeper understanding about their own learning. It is a tool for the teacher that encourages young people, and indeed ourselves, to reflect upon skills, abilities and attainment. So what is self-assessment exactly? Well, the dictionary definition terms
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Peer Assessment – a very formalised title for something we likely include in our teaching, perhaps without even realising it. Peer assessment is when we use the students to check their work before handing it to the teacher. It is a very powerful tool to use to support students and make them feel less intimidated
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Being a woman striving to succeed in a professional environment is no easy task; women have many challenges to face before they can be recognised as successful, yet there are vast numbers of women who have achieved innumerable things and faced challenging obstacles, overcoming them with triumph. It is no less challenging in an educational
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Over the past few months Alex and I have been working on a particularly challenging but inspiring project supporting the Ministry of Education in the Seychelles and their Teacher Professional Development strategy. It has been an interesting project, beginning with a review of their Teacher Competency Standards and getting to grips with the practices and
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