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How are you feeling? Taking care of yourself while teaching in lockdown

February 26, 2021February 26, 2021Oxford English Team Leave a comment

If you had said a year ago that working from home was possible for a teacher, the idea would have been unthinkable. We can’t teach from home! We need to be with our pupils – seeing what they’re doing, motivating them, watching out for their behaviour and making sure they’re focused. How would we mark […]

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Helping students boost their motivation through online learning

February 22, 2021February 15, 2021Oxford Science Team Leave a comment
Notepad of ideas

Many of the students in my examination classes are struggling to engage in online learning and need ways to boost their motivation.  They are unsure of the merit of spending time learning new content and practicing examination questions, as they feel that their grades will be generated from data that has already been collected.  It […]

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Lockdown Snakes and Ladders: Encouraging positive outcomes in home learning

February 15, 2021February 25, 2021Oxford Science Team Leave a comment
Lockdown learning: snakes and ladders

A game of snakes and ladders – that is how my 9-year-old son describes lockdown. This piqued my interest, and I was drawn away from my online virtual marking and gazed at him across the kitchen table to ask him to explain his metaphor.  Zac is in Year 5 in an expanding multiphase academy, where […]

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