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Tom Bennett – Running the room (Chapter 2)

Chapter 2 – Good and Bad Models. I’m still reading running the room by Tom Bennett and one of the chapters that I’ve been working through this week discussed the use of Good and Bad Models. Bennett discusses different methods … Continue reading

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Tom Bennett – Running The Room

Running The Room – Tom Bennett – Chapter 1 As part of ongoing CPD in my school we’ve recently been given a copy of the book ‘Running the room’ by Author Tom Bennet. I’ve given myself a challenge of reading … Continue reading

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Technology in the classroom & Chrome Books

Something that I’ve always liked about the use of Technology, is the impact that it can have on students. There are a multitude of ways that you can use a tool to help aid a students progress of students. I … Continue reading

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Grade Cam – Multiple Choice

Quite often we forget that when we question our students, we can actually get a lot of value and a lot of discussion points from multiple choice questions. Using multiple choice questions can actually support your students learning in many … Continue reading

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E-Safety Week – Safety Resources

No Budget? No Problem? As with our new Ofsted frameworks and endless logs of data that we have to include. I know that it’s not always easy for schools to make sure that they have logs of particular incidents. In … Continue reading

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Top 10–Global Teacher Prize

Thank you message Now in its third year, the US $1 million award is the largest prize of its kind, and was set up to recognize one exceptional teacher who has made an outstanding contribution to the profession as well … Continue reading

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12 Teaching Tips of Christmas!–Day 1

I just want to start off by saying it’s been a crazy year. I would like to say thank you to all of the teachers who still read my blog and check out the computer science pages that I have. … Continue reading

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Raspberry Pi-oneers

During the week of the 1st of August to the 5th of August, I was invited to Uppingham School by fellow teacher Arron Gourlay. We’re both teachers of the Brooke Weston Trust and both love to use technology to make … Continue reading

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Minecraft and R.E

So recently before I moved to my new school I had been using Minecraft to encourage students to try different things in their lessons. When learning about theory in some of the computing lessons, I thought that it was nice … Continue reading

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