Metacognition
Project Description
Assessment for Learning is perhaps one of the few things that all teachers agree upon both pedagogically and politically. Not all teachers can spell Dylan Wiliam’s name though, let alone actually read the original material. Actually understanding the conceptual framework of a subject is remarkably challenging: discerning ideas and connections can be impossibly ambitious. Asking someone to tick a rubric or rate their perception of their learning is much more doable.
Here you will see some of my MA reviews of metacognition, and my promotion of teaching students to gain the sense of the right time to use subject-specific strategies.
Crucible Quotes Revision Example – Moving Between PowerPoint and Word Document
TKAMB June 2013 Section B Alternative Answer
Creating a Year 9 AQA English Language Answer Example
Example of summarising pupil voice
I do not think it is good practice to publicly reveal the results of pupil voice. However, below are the working documents where I summarised the results of my autumn term pupil voice. Its purpose is to show how I summarised the qualitative data, and how I might...
How long should it take to mark? 10 ambitions for 2013
Teaching in the UK is embroiled about the question of 'reasonable'. What is reasonable to some is not reasonable to others. For example, to create a rubric and insert it into excel takes me a minute or two. It could take others longer; they would need to judge whether...
An example of using the new markbook
This isn't an ordinary markbook. All the markbooks that I have downloaded from the TES, or teachit.co.uk, or any of the conventional resource websites are essentially digital versions of the paper version. And if something can be completed on paper with a pen, then...
10 reasons to find a new way of marking (for English teachers)
Welcome to my post about my markbook. For a time now I have tried to improve my markbook. I was seduced by the notion of cloud computing, although too long spent staring at a screen (and reduced functionality) have returned me back to excel. Having done so, I...
Teaching Research Skills
There is often (righteous) argument raging in schools across the world about what should be taught to students - often more by those who aren't at the chalk face. Some excellent (and satirical) blogs question the idea of learning 'skills' and suggest that there was a...
Year 10 Macbeth – Prior to essay
I have been proud of how my Year 10s have approached their studies this term. Many of them will be open about how they require prompting; none of them, though, do not want to achieve. We have started with our Shakespeare requirement. Balancing the English vs English...
