*New Blog* Spacing Effect; Intensive ‘Crash’ Courses and 6th Form Independent Study Do intensive driving courses not take advantage of the spacing effect? Are they as safe? How can we enable 6th Formers to space their practice? #cogscisci CogSciSci ironicbonding.wordpress.com/2020/06/16/spa…

Research can't tell teachers what to do—classrooms are too complex for that ever to be likely. But research can identify "best bets" for improving practice, and the Great Teaching Toolkit Evidence Review is pretty much the state of the art in this regard: greatteaching.com

If you're looking for great classroom insights, visit our Early Career Hub! 🎬Our interactive videos take a look at a range of classroom topics to support your development. Take a look at skilful questioning: earlycareer.chartered.college/skilful-questi…

How I use mini-whiteboards to teach pupils diagrams as part of my #ClearTeacherExplanations to aid understanding and memory: bunsenblue.wordpress.com/2020/04/19/cle…

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Loved Paul A. Kirschner /Carl Hendrick 's 'How learning happens' (bit.ly/3eFuh2m), so I made a summary with the obligatory icons! (pdfs here: bit.ly/2Ny9LVc US is letter-let me know mistakes) It's so I can glance over as I'm planning to remind myself. #iteachphysics

Whole Class Feedback is about using an understanding of the learning of your class to plan for progress. Use our template to try it out during remote learning ✍️🤓🔥

Re-Establishing Teaching Routines. teacherhead.com/2020/05/29/re-…

Interesting study in the news last week (US based) How do you make sure the scientists you talk about in your classrooms are representative and diverse? Do you have any favourite examples you can share? bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…

For those of you now going down the what we really need is to just catch up their learning and not this... please don’t underestimate the ability of staff to do both. Sometimes solutions lie between the poles. theguardian.com/education/2020…

The infographics folder of the shared drive is slowly building, with a mixture of jpeg's and transparent png's you can use to create resources. Next to look at converting some of these bland black icons until coloured icons 👍🙂

"One of the criticisms I've faced over the years is that I'm not aggressive enough or assertive enough, or maybe somehow, because I'm empathetic, it means I'm weak. I totally rebel against that. I refuse to believe that you cannot be both compassionate & strong." Jacinda Ardern pic.x.com/YaMPp4rDhM

Today, our Y10’s had a Zoom call with Brian Cox discussing Black Holes. Fenn Russell even had his brilliant question answered: “With recent advancements in technology, what do you believe will be the next big discovery in space?”. 👏🏼🔭🌚🪐🌠 Wales High School B Taylor ⌬ Jorden Birch 👩🏾‍🔬

Just discovered 'Build-A-Cell' - a drag/drop interactive game to teach students about organelles in various cell types. Friday evening and I have just spent the last hr playing it... Free to register! Chat Biology #chatbiology #ffbteachers #ffbbiology spongelab.com/game_pages/BAC…

Using existing schemes of work and the findings from cognitive science, with (conscious) small tweaks, teachers can reduce workload and refine existing curriculum plans to support long term retention. Next month's 36-page membership resource is ready buff.ly/2ODZo2U

Cancer cell CCR2 orchestrates suppression of the adaptive immune response, say Fein (@miriamrfein ScienceAdvocacyLI), He, Egebald (Mikala Egeblad) Almeida (Ana Santos Almeida) et al Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory bit.ly/3j6rCRS

Busli’s tin tower is in the lead so far - fantastic effort from everyone! 🙌🏻 #giving #foodbank Wales High School

Thanks so much to everyone Wales High School who donated to the New Hope Food Bank this half term to support the community🙌 Big thanks also to Louise Holehouse who works hard to give our students the opportunity to help others🤩 We hope you like the video! #giving #foodbank

We are looking for a new staff member! If you like working in a supportive an innovative team and are passionate about teaching and science, then please take a look! waleshigh.com/vacancies/