Tag: feedback
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What makes effective whole-class feedback?
I recently delivered a short talk as part of our whole school INSET on effective feedback. In my section, I talked specifically about how to use misconceptions and common errors to provide whole-class feedback. In this post I will outline the points I made to explain this with some examples for Physics and Sociology. Both…
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Scientific literacy 3: writing about science
This post is the third in a series about improving the scientific literacy of our pupils. So far I’ve written about use of vocabulary and embedding additional reading into the curriculum for KS3. Why is scientific writing important? As I’ve said before, literacy is important beyond any one school subject’s curriculum. It can have a…
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Ethics update: approval!
In my last post about this, I had just submitted my ethics application. In this post I’ll talk about the feedback I received, and how I have addressed those issues. Administrative points Some of the information that was required for the ethics proposal was missing. Rookie. This meant that I’d forgotten to put in some…
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Maximising Progress in KS5 Physics
Prompted by a round of ChatPhysics on Twitter recently, I thought this could be an opportunity to write about ways that we maximise progress at our school, and some methods I want to try from some other Twitter Physicists. Feedback This links to another post I’ve written, relating to the college-wide project I’m running introducing…
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Marking and feedback for workload reduction
It’s no secret that teacher workloads are generally pretty high. Those who haven’t been in a school since they were in school might suggest it’s a cushty 9-3 job with tonnes of holiday. The holidays are nice, sure, but I tend to spend most of my holidays working on research stuff, and I usually have…
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