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Key word bingo – my favourite revision lesson

I have been blessed/cursed (delete as appropriate) to have double lessons with my KS4 classes for a couple of years. These have been at varying times of day but this year we are on P4/5 on Fridays (a real joy). Now before lunch, they are relatively amenable but by the lesson after lunch, there is…
The Power of Professional Development OR What I Learned on my NPQ.

The idea of undertaking an NPQ filled me with a giddy thrill, geek that I am, but what I was hoping for more than anything else was to build connections and have even more of an opportunity to talk all things teaching and learning (something I have greatly missed since it ended). For me, there…
Retrieval Practice in the History Classroom

Retrieval practice is something which has transformed my teaching since I first read about it in Kate Jones’ excellent book Love to Teach. It’s fair to say that now every lesson I have includes some element of retrieval and even fairer to say that my skill at using such strategies has greatly improved with understanding…