Just like every teacher I start each new year with some personal objectives; this year I am determined to be more organised, be more rigid with homework and to make my feedback and marking more effective (still not sure what that actually means though!). How long it lasts is yet to be seen! Some years … Read more
I was reading a post today by the fab Colleen Young about learning names (here) and it got me thinking about the difference in the effort I made in learning students names last year compared to when I first joined the school. In my first year it wasn’t just the names of the new intake that … Read more
If you are looking for some inspiration for your classroom check out our dropbox (email me mel@justmaths.co.uk for access if you haven’t already done so) @MrGibbsMaths has done a brilliant job of making a selection of posters – a few are shown below, but there are more!! – each poster has lots of variants so can be found in a variety of colour … 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
Seager recently presented at the Edexcel conference (Excellence in Maths) and in addition to talking about intervention at KS4 he also spoke about Numeracy across the curriculum and the things we are doing to not only improve the numeracy skills of our students (and dare I say it ….. teachers … too late! I’ve said … Read more
I am not wishing my life away by thinking that far ahead but this is a quick post to remind you all to check in (after about 1pm) on results day for the template for the Edexcel June 1MAo papers RESULTSPLUS analysis template that will enable you to produce a one page question level analysis sheets … Read more
I like to think I take some risks with my teaching – I know that to some people my ideas are sometimes a bit bizarre but then again, compared to others I’m pretty tame, but the one thing I’ve stayed away from is letting the students do any kind of free-roaming activity outside the classroom. This isn’t … Read more
#neveragain #exammarking have been appearing on my timeline on twitter on a regular basis for the last few weeks as maths teachers up and down the country plough through 1000s (and 1000s!!) of exam questions. So why do we do it? When I first started teaching I did exam marking for 2 reasons – money (of … Read more
In view of the recent announcements having the discussion seems a tad redundant in the long term but a discussion on twitter (with @Jeremy_Denton, @MrGibbsMaths & @dognoon) last night got me thinking about a student (not one of ours I must add) – who lives close to me – as many of you will know when people have children … Read more
As a school we use “star, star, target” when marking books, and like the good little girl that I am I try to (!?!) follow this, even if I have left the ink stamp in school I attempt to include two good things and an area for them to focus on to improve. More recently … Read more
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