Advice and training for teachers.
It is time for the Top Form World Cup! A few years ago I gained this great idea to help pupils learn locations using gamification. The idea is pupils compete against each other in a football style game while answering questions on locations around the world. If they get the question right they move up […]
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This post teaches you how to remove backgrounds from images quickly.
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Do you need to upload your Microsoft Powerpoint presentation to Google Classroom? Whether you are a teacher or student, the process is realtively simple. Use on of the videos located here to help you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-muttk-BDJohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4wKeOCBZCA
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Learn how to upload your Powerpoint File that you have created to Google Classroom. This is a guide for Students.
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Adobe Spark is a great tool for creating quick and easy videos to help explain to students ideas and concepts quickly and clearly. Video clips can be short and sharp which help keep pupils engaged while allowing them to recover material if they need to. The videos can be made VERY quickly and look VERY
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Google Classroom has been the GoTo app for many educators in this lockdown period. Microsoft PowerPoint has been the GoTo program for educators for many years when delivering lessons to classrooms of pupils. Combining these two platforms is often a natural decision for educators to make. It may be easier to use Google Slides with
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Tracking Pupil Progress in your Markbook in Google Sheets with Sparkline Tracking pupil progress is an essential part of the teacher toolkit. Often we can be faced with pages of data in a mark book and are expected to turn that into evidence whether a pupil is making progress or not. This week I discovered
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As a housemaster this time of year is always exciting. There is the anticipation of taking a vast array of students with increasing maturity from previous years alongside new boarders who come with their insecurities and enthusiasms. The prospect of developing a house, and in particular a house spirit that will provide the pupils with
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How to achieve instant quiet and attention from pupils without using your voice! Bringing a class to quiet. The “Magical” power of the Class Dojo “ping”. Bringing a class to quiet is a skill that I have watched other teachers use with envy. It can take years of practise. It can take very special techniques.
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Teacher Agency – Enabling teachers ability within their environments I am shortly about to start a masters course in Teaching and Learning. One of the first reading tasks was an article; Teacher Agency in Curriculum Making: Agents of Change and Spaces for Manoeuvre. It follows three teachers and examines their effectiveness as teachers within the
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