Explicit Teaching

Definition: Concepts are fully explained and procedures fully demonstrated before novices are asked to apply those concepts or procedures

Features that increase effectiveness
- highly interactive
- new material presented in small steps with practice after…

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A guide in collaboration with The National College 🎯

A great weekend with the Gareth Johnson team at Woodhouse Grove discussing leadership for departments and schools in the North #grjeducation #cpd #education

Although most of my notes are on OneNote, whenever I hand write notes I’ll be using this…

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Retrieval Practice: Myths, Mutations & Mistakes

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Made it to #cogscisci23 . Now sat with a coffee doing the “who do I go see” decision making!

Some great strategies here to engage quieter learners in the class.

If you're entitled to this, get on it!

Fellow eukaryotes!

Today begins the Intracellular World Cup

There will be 16 first round match ups, every match is a knock out. Vote in each match so we can definitively prove the Greatest Intracellular Structure

No prokaryotes. The microbiome can do one🖕🏽

Round 1 match 1

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Tell us what it is like to teach/work in science education in the UK and Ireland by taking part in the Science Teaching Survey before 30 May👉smartsurvey.co.uk/s/STS_2023_IOP/

(The survey is being run by Royal Society of Chemistry supported by Institute of Physics & Royal Society of Biology)

How confident are you teaching the maths components in the science curriculum? Audit your knowledge and take the next steps with this article and resource from Amanda Clegg
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‘Innovative… Outstanding… I hope it makes a major contribution to how school biology is taught.’
—Michael Reiss

Help prepare your GCSE students for the exams with confidence. The curriculum team has designed this useful booklet for you to use with your students to explore and highlight common misunderstandings in science assessments.

Access the resource here > bit.ly/41lLxSC

A catch up on #edumentoring for all the #edumentors and those that have been in touch:

New ⬇️
A low-workload framework for biology lessons.

I've greatly advanced my framework published in 2021. Those biology-based arguments have been united in a symbiosis with a powerful pedagogical theory—variation theory.

In my book (coming soon): Fully explored & many examples

I've been putting a lot of time and thought into my GCSE Biology booklets lately. Blog post about the decisions I've made to follow, but all can now be found here: …chingunderthemicroscope.wordpress.com/gcse-biology/

It seems odd to say how much I enjoyed the talk from Satveer Nijjar on self harm yesterday at our INSET. Enlightening, engaging and informative. Best two hours of #cpd I’ve had in a while!