This will be a brief blog. I’m using it to keep track of ways that I’m trying to teach- so Learning myself and Learning for the students.

 1. Students Learning Logs. My 4th year History class are going to keep a learning log. Rather than do it in a spare jotter I think that we’ll try to do it as a blog.

2. Teacher Break. The same 4th year class are half away at the moment on work  experience- so the remaining half of the class is preparing a lesson on suffragettes for them. 3 students have decided to prepare a starter based on a game of battleships. 3 more are doing a powerpoint presentation to teach the main parts of the lesson. 3 more are testing knowledge with a game: question race. 1 is choosing and setting the homework, 1 more is the ‘ringleader’ and will organise and present the lesson.

3. Independent Learning. My Access 3 class have worked very well at this so I’m extending it to my  second year history class. They will be choosing their own tasks and learning at their own pace. They each have a sheet giving a range of options to choose in order to get to the end point- an assessment.