I’ve recently read Daniel Coyle’s ‘The Culture Code‘ and it really gets you thinking about ‘belonging’, which is the special sauce that a lot of schools are looking for. Here is my take on the book and how it can be potentially applied to schools. According to Coyle all successful groups develop three “skills” or …
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WHAT’S HAPPENING?
(WHY WE’RE ALL ELLIOT MOORE WHEN IT COMES TO EXAM ANALYSIS) Recently I’ve decided to watch more films by the director M. Night Shyamalan. Obviously I have watched Sixth Sense and thoroughly enjoyed the Unbreakable/Split/Glass trilogy but what encouraged me to go further into his filmography was his recent adaptation of a graphic novel called …
HOW TO BE INTERESTING ABOUT SCHOOLS
At the beginning of the year, I started reading a book called ‘How To Be Interesting’ by Edward de Bono. The author is best known for creating the term ‘lateral thinking’ and wrote a very influential book on decision making called ‘Six Thinking Hats’. I’m not sure whether the book has made me more interesting …
THE JOY OF SCHOOL – #LOVEWHEREYOUTEACH
When you’ve been teaching for over 25 years, it’s very easy to lose your mojo when it comes to school life. I think it can happen anytime in your career but I was definitely struggling just before Covid struck and since then, there hasn’t been any sort of rebound. It’s never about the classroom though. …
HOW TO GET ‘INTEREST’ IN YOUR SUBJECT TO BOOST LEARNING
In Michael Lewis’ latest book ‘The Premonition: A Pandemic Story’, one of the chief protagonists, Carter Mecher, points out that people don’t learn what is imposed upon them but rather what they freely seek, out of desire or need. For people to learn, they need to want to learn. He uses a really interesting example …
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The Joy of Podcasts – using podcasts to enrich learning!
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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