#TLAB13: Teaching, Learning & Assessment Conference, Berkhamsted School
4am on a Saturday morning & my alarm is going off. What would get me up at this unearthly time? Why, the inaugural Teaching, Learning & Assessment Conference at Berkhamsted School of course!...
View ArticleAlastair Smith at #TLAB13: Beware the Ofsted Whisperers
Alastair Smith opened the inaugural #TLAB13 with his keynote speech entitled: 50,000 chunks: how we become ‘experts’ and what it might mean for our conference today. I’ve posted a link to the...
View ArticleDavid Didau at #TLAB13
As an English teacher (and self-confessed Twitter-holic) then the choice of the first #TLAB13 workshop was a no-brainer: I was going to listen to David Didau’s Anatomy of an Outstanding Lesson session....
View ArticleRosie McColl at #TLAB13: can pupils be more effective teachers?
One of the biggest challenges I find is making student presentations effective, so again, my choice of second #TLAB13 workshop picked itself. Rosie McColl, Deputy Head of English at Berkhamsted School,...
View ArticleAfter #TLAB13: what next?
It was a long journey home after the conference and I had time to reflect and start to think how I was going to implement some of the things I had seen, heard, discussed, considered… My action plan:...
View Article#TMLpool: an educational “bring and buy sale”?
At #TLAB13, Alastair Smith spoke about TeachMeets. He’d attended the TeachMeet held at Berkhamsted the night before the main conference. He called it “an educational bring and buy sale” or a “carboot...
View ArticleBill Lucas at #TLAB13
I found Bill Lucas’ keynote interesting. It wasn’t only what he said but, through the power and instant nature of social media, the things others in the audience and beyond were making of the speech as...
View Article#Nurture1314: That was the year that was…
2013: that was the year that was about… 1. TeachMeet Liverpool. I organised the first Liverpool TeachMeet in April. It was a fantastic day and showcased some excellent teachers and educational...
View ArticleSSAT National English Conference
SSAT English Conference – Friday 7th February, 2014 at Hilton Kensington Olympia. The 5:27am train from Liverpool to London Euston is a strange beast. It doesn’t really get full until it hits the...
View ArticleIs advice better than feedback when it comes to lesson observations?
I follow Doug Lemov, author of Teach Like a Champion, on Twitter (@Doug_Lemov) and always enjoy his willingness to share ideas and engage in discussion and debate with educators. Over the Christmas...
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