Trying to apply educational research to students of all abilities and backgrounds
I started my career in 2003 as a Biology teacher. While nowadays I spend more of my time teaching chemistry, I still love to get stuck into some biology. One of the unusual benefits of covid related staff absences last term was the chance to get back to teaching some biology when I covered the... Continue Reading →
I’m prepping a training session on effective explanations for Jan inset and I thought I would share the example I’m going to give of what I think is a pretty decent explanation. A lot of my thinking around explanations has been framed by the brilliant work carried out by Adam Boxer over the years. While... Continue Reading →
Reflections on Education 