If you don’t know about this you should do – Mr Barton has been doing some podcasts and they are brilliant. He has spoken to the “big names” from 3 of the exam boards and listening to them has been brilliant – it’s nice to hear people talking about Maths education. No! It really is … Read more
Just wow! Changing job is THE hardest think I have ever done in my career. It must be the best kept secret in teaching, because no-one ever tells you what to expect until you’re “in the moment”. I have no idea why this is the case, maybe it’s because people think that if they admit … Read more
I am sure that there is a maths joke in that title somewhere! Anyway, I promised to post more information about the logistics of the one-to-one programme that we mentioned yesterday – I must remind you that this isn’t the model we’re adopting in our new school as we have no under-allocation (just in case anyone … Read more
It’s the day before the start of term and last year I wrote about my main worry being getting my feet that had somehow turned into hobbit feet, back into “proper” shoes after six weeks in flip flops. I did have another worry and that was maybe I would have forgotten how to teach. It … Read more
I promise I’ve tried. I really have! Please, please, please believe me when I say “I have tried to say nothing” … I have sat and read blogs and tweets about grade boundaries, higher versus foundation, early entry and so much more along these themes … you will have noticed I’ve said nothing. Not a word! I’m sat … Read more
I‘m not even sure that “monkeying” is a real word, but Seager calls me the department’s “data monkey” and I am sure most departments will have one … if you haven’t got one … you need too. In some schools the person that handles the data will be the Head of Department, but in ours … Read more
Shortly after starting teaching I attended a training course for a model of teaching that our school was introducing (TEEP), from which we have now moved on and adapted for our school. At the time I was fresh from my PGCE and found it frustrating to be “introduced” to a whole range of strategies (and technically they … Read more
There are THREE of us involved in JustMaths ….. trust me (I’m a maths teacher!) there are definitely three of us … 1. There’s me! 2. Many of you that drop by this blog met Seager (sorry I should call him Christian, but can’t bring myself to do it … he’s just Seager!) last weekend when … Read more
I’ve had lot and lots of enquiries about the @ReviseJustMaths questions and answers that I tweet and I have been looking for a solution to share them – loads of you are telling me how you are using them for starters of as a plenary and many schools block access to twitter, which is an … Read more
Getting some of our students to revise is ridiculously difficult. We provide them with so many different resources and I’d like to think that we signpost what they need to do, pretty well. Its tough when there is a long run until the next exam session – there seems to be no sense of urgency in some … Read more
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