Well done research, leaflets and presentations on "Organ systems and health" from my Y7s today.... #HealthPromotion #Care #AnEthicOfExcellence

In Y8 HW club yesterday S: Miss I heard you are a good drawer Me: Aww thanks S: You should show me your talent Me: *student name* I'm not doing your art work for you S: I err... Damn! Haha 😄 🤣 these kids

Amazing talk on glycobiology / carbohydrate biochemistry from Prof. Anne Dell of Imperial College London to our Y12s and Y13s yesterday 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 the links to immunology and pharmacology made me miss Biomedical Science more than ever!

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Just finished Zach Groshell's excellent guide to direct instruction, Just Tell Them. Here's a 🧵of pithy and useful quotes:

Six Things That Made My Teaching Better - for me and my students. teacherhead.com/2020/12/20/six… via Tom Sherrington

Forest walks, beach chills, street food, temples, Tiger and Elephant sanctuaries 🥹 peace & love 🇹🇭🙏🏽 Ready for the last stretch.

There are lots of ways to provide opportunities for retrieval practice inside & outside of the classroom. There are pros/cons or benefits/limitations to different techniques that's why I have always embraced variety. As a history teacher MCQs & short answer quizzes are great

When students listen 🫠 #YearTenMocks

👾 POOR PROXIES FOR LEARNING! Just because students are busy, engaged, or writing lots, doesn’t mean they’re learning. Learning happens when students have to think hard! This guide explores poor proxies for learning highlighted by Robert Coe and what to do instead. ⚗️ Read more

I have authored a free eBook to download with Evidence Based Education Flashcards to support Teaching & Learning. You can get it here linkedin.com/newsletters/gr…

Had a pleasure of mentoring a PGCE student from University of Notre Dame 🇦🇺 these past 6 weeks. She smashed it.... and my ECT has done an incredible job this year too 👏🏾🙌🏽🙏🏽 Love teacher progress & development 🫶🏽

1 day to go..... #SummerSoonCome

We read chapters from this as a faculty to discuss in CPD meetings: so many helpful pedagogical points and examples.

Summer bliss 🇹🇷🫶🏽💫

If you received your A-level results today and didn’t get what you expected, this is for you.

Human delivers an unusually clear picture of Homo sapiens as a species shaped by climate, animals, plants, other hominins and the interactions of its own nomadic groups. Bethan Ackerley is enthralled newscientist.com/article/mg2673…