Andy Chandler-Grevatt explores the important role in teaching and learning. played by curriculum narratives.
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Stacey Wheeler discusses common lab equipment used in practicals and rates them on usefulness, awe and wonder, and effectiveness.
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Dr Andy Chandler-Grevatt discusses the challenges of improving science curriculum and argues that there are many strategies to support developing metacognition and self-regulation.
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Author and teacher Jim Breithaupt explores IGCSE® Physics practical work and how it is assessed.
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What does success look like? Science teacher Onn May Ling looks at how to co-construct success criteria in an IGCSE® Chemistry class.
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Science teacher Yao-Jin Choong shares six strategies for making abstract concepts more concrete.
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Physics teacher Elliot Sarkodie-Addo shares his top tips for success in IGCSE® Physics.
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If you have been roaming through the education blogosphere or edutwitter you will have started to notice an increase in the reference of SLOP. What is SLOP? SLOP stands for ‘Shed Loads of Practice’. The term SLOP was coined by Adam Boxer and Ruth Walker in the early stages in the formation of CogSciSci , a group of teachers and […]
Read more By Dom Shibli FCCT Dom is a Senior Lecturer in Secondary Science at the University of Hertfordshire. He is a proud founding fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching and contributes to the CogSciSci website. He applauds the use of cognitive science within the teaching profession but hopes that it doesn’t become the next fad […]
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By Sam Holyman Are you concentrating at the end of term? At school we are getting ready for the new academic year, sorting labs, stock taking and making sure everything is labelled. And concentration has become the hot topic of debate! We use the term concentration all the time, and in everyday life this gets […]
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