Archive for October, 2006

Oct 11 2006

Helping pupils understand aggression

Published by under Behaviour

I have been doing some work with our P6 and P7 pupils regarding aggression. We looked at how to recognise aggression and how we can play a part in making situations better or worse. The pupils had never really made the link between emotions driving feelings and feelings driving behaviour. In the past I had [...]

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Oct 10 2006

Confidence……….taught, not caught.

Have you ever wondered where some people get that unshakeable self belief and supreme confidence? Not the misplaced variety we see on shows like the x-factor and others of that ilk. Well, there is a huge body of secure evidence that tells us we can do something about this for our pupils and dare I [...]

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Oct 04 2006

Using ICT to promote literacy

Published by under Using ICT

My project on using wiki pages to embark on some collaborative writing is taking shape. The P5 pupils I am working with have almost finished their own research topics an will be putting them into a word document to make publishing easier. I am using formative assessment techniques to make sucess criteria and get the [...]

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