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The Benefits of Teachers Using Twitter
Before I begin this I would like to add as a caveat that I have only been using Twitter seriously for a few months. I am by no means an 'expert'. The reason I write this though is because, even in this...
View ArticleMaking my students feel part of something - GCSE History
During the autumn term I have been really focusing on motivation as a cause of learning with my GCSE History class. I believe that one of the biggest, but often overlooked, causes of motivation comes...
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Using Students to Plan Lessons and Evaluate Progress - Co-construction with...
In my mind co-construction is the process where students are used to help plan lessons and to evaluate the progress that has been made. The picture above shows a group of GCSE historians discussing the...
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Engagment and Motivation - GCSE History Year 9
I have been looking into motivation with some of my Year 9 GCSE students. Unlike my other GCSE group this class only contains Year 9 students. This group can be a little up and down. Quite often they...
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Using Twitter to Enhance Learning in History Lessons
Over the last couple of weeks I have been experimenting with using Twitter in lessons. My aim has been twofold:1) To develop the engagement of my students by using their smartphones in my lessons.2)...
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Getting Student Feedback on my Teaching using Google Forms
I am a big believer in using student co-construction to help plan my lessons and as a vehicle for feedback (see my other post). This has proven very valuable however it has not allowed me to access a...
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The Power of Stuctured Collaboration - trying to adopt Kagan Structures into...
Yesterday we had our second session from @T2TUK on Kagan Structures @Rossett. This built on a session that took place last year. This second session gave us a few more examples of structures that we...
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A history teacher preparing lessons for Ofsted Inspection
Next week we will be involved in an Ofsted and as such i have been getting my lesson plans together for the possibility of an observation. As regular readers will know I 'loves a caveat early doors'...
View ArticleUsing Blogs for History Homework
At the start of the year our school purchased RealSmart software. It is a programme that allows students and staff to collaborate. I am discussing the blogging aspect of RealSmart in this blog and I...
View Article"Flirting with the Flipped" - YouTube and the 'Flipped' Classroom
This post is appropriately titled because I believe I have been using a 'flipped' classroom on different occasions but without intentionally setting out to do so. I have used my YouTube Channel as the...
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Using The ShowMe app to develop source analysis and AfL - GCSE History
Over the past week I have been using the iPad app ShowMe to develop my students source analysis skills at GCSE. ShowMe is an app that allows the user to combine photo, VoiceOver and annotation. It is...
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"When the leader came to power" - Hinge Question based Introduction to Nazi...
For a number of years I have used this activity as a way into studying Nazi Germany, it works well with Year 8 students but could easily work with older students too. On the face of it it is quite...
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Using iPad's to give Exam feedback and Create AfL Targets
I have been using my iPad @Rossett for the past month or so. It has really helped transform and invigorate giving exam feedback and today I tried to take this to the next level. In the past I have...
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"Stroll-Pair-Musical Chair" @Westylish's Very Own Kagan esk Structure
Staff engage in stroll-pair-share About a month ago we had our third instalment of Kagan Structure training @Rossett. This allowed us to re-evaluate our progress so far and taught us a few new...
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Developing the use of YouTube within the 'Classroom' – A PGCE Session
Last week I was privileged to spend a morning with the current cohort of history PGCE trainees at York University. The aim of the session was to show how YouTube could be used within the history...
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Creating Opportunities to Fail - Resilience and the Rossett 'Independance Day'
On the 3rd July we had an 'Independence Day' (#IDRossett2012) @Rossett. The aim of the day was to embed and showcase the Rossett 3R's: Responsibility, Reflection and Resilience. Below is a video of...
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The Best Type of Feedback - Students Reflecting on my lessons using Google Forms
I have recently been receiving and analysing feedback on my teaching provided by my last GCSE class. Using a GoogleForm I anonymously asked them several questions about my teaching. The questions...
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Using Social Media to 'produce' the @RossettHistory School Trip
At the end of the October half-term we took 41 @Rossett students from years 9, 10 and 11 to Ypres and the Somme to gain an understanding of the trenches, cemeteries, museums and memorials of the First...
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Making My Solo Taxonomy Debut
Students working at the unistructural stageTwo weeks ago I started to use solo taxonomy for the first time. I had read several posts about the taxonomy on Twitter and felt it could work well with GCSE...
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Turning students into teachers - Socrative and student led learning
Over the coming weeks @Rossett iPads are being introduced on a 1-1 basis. As a teacher there I am obviously looking for ways to incorporate them into the learning (that said everything discussed here...
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