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I love teaching science, but I think it’s a hard subject to teach well. Of course it’s easy to see the challenges in your own area of expertise and gloss over the ones in other subjects but science has a lot of content – a lot of declarative knowledge – and lots of different ways […]
Read More Teaching Declarative Knowledge: Part 2I love teaching science, but I think it’s a hard subject to teach well. Of course it’s easy to see the challenges in your own area of expertise and gloss over the ones in other subjects but science has a lot of content – a lot of declarative knowledge – and lots of different ways […]
Read More Teaching Declarative Knowledge: Part 1I can’t help but think I’ve had several lucky breaks in my career. By rights, I shouldn’t really have the immense privilege of leading the PGCE Secondary Science programmes at the University of Southampton. There should have been a queue round the block for my job when I first became an ITE tutor. If there […]
Read More Best job in the world?Matt Burnage wrote a somewhat devastating thread about ITT on Twitter recently. I completely understand where he’s coming from and I thought I’d get my thoughts down on each of the points he’s made and some reasons why it might seem like ITT Providers, and/or schools, are dragging their feet. These are just my own […]
Read More Mentor TrainingMy mum is an exceptional woman. An occupational therapist for most of her career, she was inspired by some voluntary bereavement counselling she did for a few years and then retrained as a psychotherapist in her 50s, completed a degree, and then a Masters, and worked very successfully with all sorts of people struggling with an extraordinary […]
Read More My Mum & MisconceptionsMatt Burnage wrote a somewhat devastating thread about ITT on Twitter recently. I completely understand where he’s coming from and I thought I’d get my thoughts down on each of the points he’s made and some reasons why it might seem like ITT Providers, and/or schools, are dragging their feet. These are just my own […]
Read More Information about ITTMatt Burnage wrote a somewhat devastating thread about ITT on Twitter recently. I completely understand where he’s coming from and I thought I’d get my thoughts down on each of the points he’s made and some reasons why it might seem like ITT Providers, and/or schools, are dragging their feet. These are just my own […]
Read More Why is so much paperwork needed? Seriously!?