Head of History | AQA A Level examiner | Cricket and football coach | Have taught in 🇬🇧 🇲🇾 🇺🇸 🇨🇳 🇮🇳
Henley-on-Thames, England
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Useful tool for helping pupils to develop their academic expression. This toolkit gives many options for pupils to use when discussing fiction & non-fiction texts. All words/phrases support analysis & interpretation. Download 👉tinyurl.com/mrxfwd7u @Team_English1 #teamenglish
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Very good article. Learning what is unlikely to work is as valuable as successful trials. Our failure-averse culture routinely understates this value.
‘Mindfulness in schools doesn’t improve mental health. Here’s why that’s a positive’ | News | Wellcome wellcome.org/news/mindfulnes…
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My recent one-pagers are free to download from my website: jamieleeclark.com/graphics
🟢 Why Don’t Students Like School?
🟡 Cognitive Load Theory Explained
🔵 Making Every Lesson Count
🟠 Explicit Instruction
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Pupil interviews are soo important as they often provide a window into the impact of our curriculum & classroom practices. They are an additional lense into the blind spots.
But asking the right questions is important .
Here are a few I have asked this year:
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Helping students build a sense of time and place with the Power and the People unit starting with an overview of the Middle Ages and links to areas of protest, taking inspiration from @mrfitzhist @MrThorntonTeach @michaeldoron
#historyteacher #powerandthepeople #aqa
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Enjoying the (small amount of!) thinking space that post-Y11 term six brings. I had a play around with a Y8 lesson from the power unit on the Great Reform Act of 1832. Very much a work in progress so any advice, constructive criticism welcome. I started with this...
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On this day in 1989 I grabbed the video cassette containing all the famous pictures of the Tiananmen massacre inc the tank man & walked down to the Beijing Hotel lobby. A cop came over to arrest me but a burst of fire outside distracted him & I slipped past. We got the pictures out via Hong Kong.
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So, form tutors out there, does your school run particular programmes during form time? anything interesting/different from norm? How is form time organised?
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For those that are interested, here is a link to a Google Drive containing the presentation I did at the HA this weekend, as well as handouts. Hopefully these will give the main headlines to those that were unable to make it!
drive.google.com/drive/folde…
The Manchester Guardian: the limits of liberalism in the kingdom of cotton | Michael Taylor theguardian.com/news/ng-inte…
Paul McCraw retweeted
I go to a lot of schools, and everyone is focusing on metacognition or dual coding or disciplinary this or curriculum intent that. Then I go into lessons, and teachers are asking questions and students are calling out answers or tchrs are picking ones with hands up. Fix that.
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I’ve finally got round to sharing my infographics from our ‘How Learning Happens’ INSET day back in November which many of you requested! The PDFs can be found on my google drive here: drive.google.com/drive/folde… a huge thank you to everyone I’ve referenced for the inspiration! 🌟🌟
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Precision, clarity and ambition from the whole team when it counts most.
#AsOne
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drive.google.com/drive/folde…
Hopefully the above link works to a drive with my Holocaust enquiry. Really proud of it using the UCL textbook so happy for people to peek and pocket if they wish, especially after all the help Twitter has given me over my time!
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Still tweaking our new assessment format. For this round, we’re adding an interleaved timeline to improve students grasp of chronology. We’ve weighted scores to favour extended writing/moved from sentence expansion to counter argument practice in our reflection. #historyteacher
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Have completely loved teaching our Y7 curriculum this year. We spent lots of time going back and refining stuff that didn’t work/re-planning where necessary. Am super happy with the result. You can download the first 3 themes here.
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