Well I was outed last night, and yes, it was by a maths teacher. I can now confirm, with my statistically valid sample of 1, that you are indeed all maths teachers. Apart from Ollie, that is. So it was time to ’fess up and my OH doesn’t appear too horrified by my ramblings. The interval between Appendix 3.1 [...]
Archive for December, 2006
Outed - and a message for English teachers of the world
Published December 15th, 2006 in Uncategorized. 10 Commentsfor today. I will soon have to break my vow of silence about this blog and introduce one of my many siblings to the world of educational blogging. She is a teacher in one of the Manchester area’s more challenging high schools. She started out as a geography teacher but is currently running a unit to try and re-integrate [...]
There was a programme on Radio 4 this morning about the the use of humour in maths teaching. Ha ha Mathematics on listen again. It’s part of a series on humour in teaching; I heard one about language teaching the other week. Anyhow, with the last week of term nigh, thank goodness, you should all dig [...]
There was an article in the paper at the weekend that I probably only noticed beacause of the LEAP evening earlier in the week. “Advanced Highers have become a near certain ticket to Oxbridge so why are so few pupils taking them?” It extols the merits of Advanced Highers as a respected top flight qualification [...]
It’s my first anniversry today. I’ve been blogging, in fits and starts, for a month! As I was warned it can be very absorbing and waste (or perhaps consume would be a better word) a vast amount of time. I’d never even read a blog before and I’ve discovered a whole world that I hadn’t realised [...]
I went to the LEAP evening at Ross High last night; early days yet for us to think about University but we did wonder what we’re in for financially. I was surprised at how few people were there given that it covered several year groups, but perhaps this is normal? In my school board days [...]
It was the annual brass concert at Ross High last night when the Coop Band comes to visit and all the brass players from the county schools put on santa hats and get together to play Christmas music. It’s always a good evening & this year the school band sounded even better than last (the Coop [...]
…I’ve done it. I don’t know why I lost data last week but I’ve finally got it all back, and in the right place. Saved in as many places as possible. Here’s a little (& very low res) map just to prove I’ve been doing something for the last few days. Now I’ve sorted that, perhaps I’ll [...]
Just something I didn’t get around to writing the other day, when thinking about S3 Standard Grades.
What are the perceived benefits of bringing the exams forward? Please discuss. I think it was explained to us at the time that there is a big drop in learning during second year, and that bringing the exams forward [...]
So which department will be the first to look at this - Chemistry, English, History or Modern Studies? Seems like a ready made extreme learning project. One of the boys was looking this up in the periodic table the other day - anything rather than the homework he was trying to do - whilst the other [...]
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