Planning and teaching the new GCSE (Eduqas A at my school) has highlighted the importance of the AO3 objective: ‘apply knowledge and understanding to interpret, analyse and evaluate geographical information and issues and to make judgements’. My Year 10 students have been developing their AO3 skills but many have struggled to include everything required in […]
Read moreI asked Rebecca Frost, a young NQT who trained at York last year, to write a guest post. She wrote an extremely interesting assignment on the importance of giving students time to respond to and act upon feedback. Here are some of her thoughts. Paragraph three is interesting, a reflective practitioner… As part of the […]
Read moreLast week I was leading a session at York university entitled native speaker orientation. I was trying to explain to the students from France, Germany and Spain who have just started their teacher training here the differences in the various types of schools in the UK. Of course, this involved looking at how we have […]
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