Teaching Tip #42: Getting Boys and Middle to Lower Attainers to Revise

You've spent at least the last two years planning, marking, teaching, making phone calls home, having the motivational conversations and whatever else your school requires you to do but essentially, it all comes down to how much work the students are prepared to put in if they are to at least avoid abject failure. Revision …

Teaching Tip #38 Revision Clocks

Are you running out of ideas when it comes to revision? Do you find re-cap lessons lengthy to plan and very teacher lead? Well, this exercise is the answer to all of the above. I tried it today and I was blown away at the results. Essentially, you divide the time you have in your …

Teaching Tip#34: Learning Grids

Here is a great revision activity which works superbly well for any subject and any ability. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you, the Learning Grid! The aim of the game is very simple. I give pairs a dice and ask them to create a grid reference by rolling the dice twice (a little bit of …

Teaching Tip #32: Becoming a better teacher

We all want to be the best, otherwise why are we even bothering? So how do we go about achieving this? We all begin at different points but there is no doubt that however naturally gifted you are at something, anyone can become a superb teacher, who helps students achieve outstanding results simply by working …