Science Teaching
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Making Feedback Visible: Four Levels in Action
Five years ago I was starting to become concerned with the difference between marking and feedback. What was making a difference to my students’ learning and was the effort I was putting into detailed marking worth it in terms of… Continue reading
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The Gradebook I Want
How can we develop a system that effectively combines standards-based grading practices with a balance between tracking MYP objectives and content-level standards in parallel? Continue reading
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Give a Student a Fish…
“Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he’ll feed his family for a lifetime.” Anne Ritchie, 1885 (maybe) This short post, again related to Understanding Learners and Learning, Visible Learning… Continue reading
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First Unit Reflections: Is It Working?
Summary of student feedback on the unit & teaching. Continue reading
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Using Student Learning Data to (try to) Improve Student Data Processing: A Department Goal
This year saw the start of a school-wide push to become more data-driven in our decision-making and evaluation. As a result, one of our goals as teachers at the start of the year was the Student Learning Goal, a target… Continue reading
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Using personal GoogleSites for learning, assessment & feedback in #IBBio
This is reposted from my i-Biology.net blog. To comment, please go there. ……….o0O0o………. Over the last two years, My IB Bio class have been keeping individual GoogleSites as records and reflections of their learning. Based on this experience and their… Continue reading
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Teachers as Researchers & Engaging in Academics
We need to get over ourselves and get involved in education. Continue reading
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How Twitter shook my confidence as a teacher (and why that’s a good thing)
I’ve been a Twitter user for about a year and a half. That’s late to the party, I know, but at first I was skeptical. It seemed a time-suck and a frivolity: what could be worth saying in 140 characters?… Continue reading
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Curriculum Studies Assignment: Physics & the MYP
With permission from my tutor, here is my Curriculum Studies assignment: “A critical review of a Grade 10 Introductory Physics course as part of the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme, examining selected aims and purposes and analyzing the extent to… Continue reading
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Differentiation through a ‘Readiness Filter’?
Carrying on from my last reflection on the differentiation workshops here this week… Some subjects have a great freedom of curriculum and are natural fits for student-driven inquiry all the way through to MYP 5 (and beyond if they exist… Continue reading
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Time to Think
If we want to push students beyond merely procedural tasks and rote learning, we need to give them enough time to think. I know I sometimes feel that I’m not earning my keep if I’m not actively engaged with each… Continue reading
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“Unit plans‽ But we have a subject guide!”
This post (June 2012) relates to my MA assignment in Curriculum Studies and recognises the tension that can be generated when asking IBDP teachers to plan a unit: traditionally the subject guides have been very prescriptive, making a content-driven approach to exam… Continue reading
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Learning Science By Doing Science: A quick reflection on Student feedback to teachers
The results of teacher evaluations by students were sent out to teachers this week and I was generally pleased with the feedback I received. Students here have written fairly and with thought and obviously appreciate their education. As a teacher… Continue reading
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MA Assignment: Proposed Assessment in MYP Next Chapter Sciences
This is a piece of work I submitted in February for my MA in International Education unit on Assessment with the University of Bath. I was given permission from my tutor to post it on this personal professional reflective blog.… Continue reading
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Concept Cartoons in Science Class
EDIT Dec 2018: Super old post (2012) now, but Concept Cartoons are the gift that keeps on giving and I was reminded of it from this Twitter thread. I’m not sure if Millgate House have produced these resources as online… Continue reading
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