As a teacher of Economics, I try to encourage my students to get involved in the Student Investor Challenge. It’s a fun activity where teams of 4 have to invest virtual money on the London Stock Exchange and make as much money as possible through buying and selling at the right time. If they beat …
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Over the past few years, there has been an increasing interest in the idea of a Universal Basic Income across the globe. On the 7th May, the Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell, attended the launch of a report by the RSA on how the Basic Income could become a UK reality and other countries have run …
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In the past year or so there has been much discussion about the use of cognitive load theory and how teachers can best use it in the classroom. John Sweller is the godfather of cognitive load theory and here he is talking to the TES about this work. Reading the articles and watching the debates …
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Sometimes my students will ask me why I became a teacher. I tell them that I wanted to be an Economics teacher from the age of 15 because I really liked my Economics teachers. Not many comprehensive schools offered Economics at GCSE (and still don’t) but I was lucky enough that mine did and I …
One of the most interesting things about the use of evidence in education is the selective way that we use evidence in education. A few years back I attended a Wellcome Trust event that was looking to fund research projects that would explore ways of boosting educational attainment. For example, there were people there who …
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In the Secret Barrister’s book ‘Stories of the Law and How it is Broken’, he discusses how the justice system is becoming more focused on getting cases through court in the name of efficiency, rather that the quality of the judgement. This is no surprise given the free market model that has been imposed on …
With the rise in the listening of podcasts, educators may wish to consider curating their own content to enrich their students and help fellow teachers. This is what we have been doing with regards the teaching of Economics and we would recommend it for others as well. Every teacher is faced with a specification for …
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Here is a link to Ofsted which discusses the busting of the ‘intent’ myth. https://educationinspection.blog.gov.uk/2019/07/01/busting-the-intent-myth/
Hello everyone…I have entered the world of blogging in order to record my thoughts on the wonderful world of teaching, as well as education more widely. I’ve taught for 20 years now and thought it would be a good time to share my wisdom. Having said that though, I am with Socrates when he said …
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