The Book Whisperer – Scream it from the Rooftops #FabEduBooks
Being an English teacher, I still look and cringe at my first, probably, five years of teaching. Everything that had got me to where I was, everything which I had experienced up until that point and...
View ArticleClassrooms as Learning Communities – a guide to my professional journey...
My favourite edubook is Classrooms as Learning Communities: What’s In It For Schools? by Chris Watkins. Way back in the early days of Curriculum for Excellence, when Building the Curriculum 3 was...
View ArticleA Book that Changed my Teacher Journey #FabEduBooks
My favourite book that has ‘disrupted my thinking’ and changed the direction of travel as a teacher is ‘Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher’, Brookfield, (1995).You know when a book arrives...
View ArticleNon-Violent Communication: a Language of Life #FabEduBooks
My favourite edubook is Non-Violent Communication: a Language of Life by Marshall Rosenberg Well to be honest I have at least a dozen favourite edubooks, but this book is the one from which I have...
View ArticleThe Elephant in the Classroom #FabEduBooks
My favourite edubook is The Elephant in the Classroom by Jo Boaler. In the book Boaler talks about the mathematical progress of thousands of students from the UK and USA whom she followed over a number...
View ArticleTeach Like A Pirate #FabEduBooks
My favourite edubook is Teach Like A Pirate by Dave Burgess. I found this book on Twitter. I’d seen lots of tweets with #TLAP after them, so tapped on #TLAP and there it was – everyone talking about...
View ArticleShaping our Global Future
Young people worry about the future: including their own personal, family and economic futures. So why don’t we evolve a curriculum that amounts to a structured conversation with them about these...
View ArticleUsing stories to support numeracy – Collette Collects – a picture book for...
It is always good to have a bit of a project for the school holidays. My October holiday project probably should have been having a big tidy-up or finding someone to clean the guttering, but instead I...
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