So it appears that my recent post about not grading topics has made a few people sit up and listen. Lots of people mentioned it to me yesterday but it was usually quickly followed up with “but how do we predict outcomes? What do we tell parents/SLT/students?” I don’t have all the answers but some … Read more
… than you can shake a stick at! So another #mathsconf5 has been and gone and my twitter line is full of people buzzing from the weekend. As I brushed my teeth on Friday afternoon before leaving to catch my train I had a vision of a Star Trek convention and it felt all a … Read more
Busy, busy, busy … waiting, waiting, waiting … so much I want to blog about but so little time! If you haven’t noticed, this month saw a visit by a load of UK Maths teachers to Shanghai as part of the “UK-Shanghai Maths Exchange” (does what it says on the tin basically!). I’ll cut to … Read more
Well hello … good to see you again. It’s been a few days as I’ve been busy – mentally busy with: open week, open evening, year 7 baseline tests and marking, all topped off with a few meetings too. Anyway I thought I’d seen the peak of madness when I wrote my recent post about … Read more
First things first. I have been feeling the love with the recent competition to win 3 school subscriptions to JustMaths Online and last night put the names into a “bucket” (there wasnt a hat in the house big enough!!) having sat and cut my printed spreadsheet up into slips (don’t ask!) and drew out three … Read more
… in a land far, far away. Actually it’s not that long ago, unless you consider 5 years a long time and it isn’t that far away either! For the last week or so many schools will have analysed their results and will be looking for reasons for any drop in key measures especially when … Read more
This is just a quickie post, because believe it or not I do have a life. Actually I wrote it this morning and have just decided to publish it … My thought process links to a post I’m halfway through about an “epiphany” I’ve had recently about teaching … I know you JUST CAN’T WAIT! … Read more
For those of you that use Edexcel for Key Stage 5 – I have attached are some templates that you may find useful for analysing student performance at a question by question level to identify areas that they can improve. I’ve added a couple of boxes that show summaries for each question too. The process … Read more
For the uninitiated amongst you that is pronounced “Borra da” .. Think about how some dialects would say “have you got a tenner I can borra Da?” when asking their Dad for a tenner. It means “good morning” in Welsh. I know its evening … I meant to publish this earlier but my laptop went … Read more
Once again I’ve put together some templates for you to import your ResultsPlus data into if your students did the Edexcel 1MA0 series in June. It makes it easy to produce each students question level analysis on one sheet (rather than the, what seems like 100’s from the ResultsPlus service online!) for each student. Here … Read more
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