Creating a positive learning environment
Is your classroom a battlefield or a playing field? This post looks at strategies for building a rapport with your students in order to create a positive climate for learning.
Lesson planning
iDoceo iDeas
iDoceo is a massively powerful tool that has transformed the way that I work and has really helped me raise my organisation game to another level. In this post, I’ll help you get started and give you some ideas on how to make it useful.
Excel geeking
I was having a conversation with an NQT the other day about the importance of being around people you can
The double-flipped classroom
Flipped classroom (from Wikipedia) Flipped classroom is an instructional strategy and a type of blended learning that reverses the traditional educational
Calculator hacks
I recently came across this blog post by @RGS_maths where they shared some calculator tips. Many of these I had come across
The burden of proof
On the back of an earlier post on Transforming Functions, I thought I might share some other A/A* lessons I
Transforming graphs
Now, don’t get me wrong, I live in the real world and I completely get that sometimes we just need
Lesson planning template
Since many of our department use Smart notebook to create lesson plans on (we tend not to use Powerpoint very much,
Silent maths videos
In a recent maths teaching and learning meeting, I led a session on using videos in maths lessons. We talked