Year after the year, the same pressures attend exam revision. Each year teachers try the old favourites, alongside a few new revision strategies to keep our students interested. Happily, we now have a …
‘Revision – What Revision?’
It is exam results week and teachers all over England will be picking through the remnants of their students’ results – their successes and failures. My thoughts come to one of the mainstay …
Moses and our Lazy Brain
A quick question: “How many animals of each kind did Moses bring onto the Ark?” Did you get it right? Two. Of course. Er, not quite. If you didn’t notice already, there …
Multiple Choice Questions: A) Use regularly B) Don’t use
In the last couple of years I have become more interested in the use of multiple choice questions. I had never really used them with any regularity and considered them a rather …
Making the Learning Leap: KS4 to KS5
(Apologies if you we’re expecting an album full of images that have students leaping holding their GCSE certificates – I think we have had enough of those this week!) In the midst …