Yes I know there’s a spelling mistake! … but need to get this off my chest. IT IS NOT OK TO SAY YOU ARE CRAP AT MATHS! Ok so maybe you couldn’t solve quadratics at school, but no matter what you do for a living, EVERYONE USES MATHS, EVERY SINGLE DAY. FACT! Get over it, and … Read more
I am having the day off work today … ok, so that’s not quite true, but I’m not busting a gut to get anything done, just pottering and doing other stuff around the house as well as doing “a bit” when the fancy takes me. So here’s a bit of an update (and if you’re … Read more
The following is a blog post I’ve written for the National College for Teaching and Leadership – I have agreed to be a case study to try to encourage other career changers into teaching (at least I can say I’m doing my bit, to address the looming teacher shortage – rather than being all “doom and gloom”) It’s probably not the … Read more
I sometimes wonder what on earth some people are thinking and how some of the things I read about on blogs and twitter, would be received in my personal life. I’ve been married 20 years (I was 21 and 3 weeks after meeting we’d moved in together and 6 months later we were married!) and I like to think that … Read more
Collaboration: working with each other to do a task and to achieve shared goals. It is a recursive process where two or more people or organisations work together to realize shared goals – for example, an endeavour that is creative in nature – by sharing knowledge, learning and building consensus. In particular, teams that work collaboratively can obtain … Read more
I am lucky enough to have a set 1 in year 11 – I’m not going to discuss the merits/drawbacks of ability streaming – and I’ve been teaching them for 3 years now with practically no changes of students in that time, so you can imagine we’ve grown to know each other pretty well. In the early … Read more
This morning I’ve finished marking my year 11 mocks (well! I say finished … I mean I’ve marked the non calculator paper … the 2nd paper isn’t until Monday) and whilst overall they are pretty good, I’ve come to the conclusion that I need to do some deliberate practice with them to keep the “bread and butter” topics fresh … Read more
between rocking horses and maths teachers? Well … let me tell you my story: 6 years ago, about this time of year I was on my PGCE and having given up a “proper” job to go into teaching I needed to be in position where I knew I had a job in September, … Read more
Just a quickie post in a bullet point “stylee” .. – Manic week, not made any better by being germ ridden! (read that as: “have a cold”). We do lots of one to one tuition and we started these again in Maths this week after the students mocks, which means “free (and I include PPA) lessons” … Read more
I’ve been teaching vectors with year 11 this week and whilst I have a snakes and ladders game that I use to get them started, any worksheets I’ve found usually comprise of exam style questions and they’re pretty boring looking. Don’t get me wrong I know they need to practice, (practice, practice!!) but sometimes its … Read more
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