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| | | | | By now most teachers will have spent a week with their new classes. Inevitably some of you reading this havebeen throwing your hands up in despair about your new Year 7 class, complaining to colleagues that they are "the weakest you've ever taught/taught in years" and lamenting thefact that your primary counterparts have clearly fiddled... | |
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| | | | | Cognitive science shows us what makes instruction effective. Long ago, primitive peoples attempted to fly by strapping feathered wings to their arms andleaping off cliffs from great heights, flapping with all their might. Despite their dreams and hard work, they invariably failed. Flight only became possible once people understood the laws of gravity, forces and... | |
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| | | | | I've been refining the way I teach equations in science for a while now, and think I've found a way that isreaping good results. The key principles are as follows: Nomatter what the content or equation, I always get pupils to follow onemethod. It works for every equation in Biology, Chemistry and Physics. Drill pupils... | |
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| | | I touched on this topic in a previous post. I'd like to explore it in more detail here. I recently met the COO of Memrise, Ben Whately. He gave me a good analogy for how memory works by suggesting it's like a party. If someone new enters the party and they don't know anyone there... | ||