Tag: Authenticity
Deus ex Machina
Presentation to the Sunday Times Festival of Education, exploring the “God in the Machine”. The notion that it is through setting up a class environment that concentrates on the imperatives of authenticity and agency, the aspects …
Who I am, What I do.
This piece was written as a contribution to Rory Gallagher‘s “Who I am, What I do” teachers’ personal testimony blog. My path to the classroom started for me on the impossibly isolated South Island of New …
Presentation to Teachmeet BETT 2014
You can also read my “It Takes a Village” Post
Agency through Authenticity
Presentation to the #i2ipartnership teachmeet, held on 24 October 2013
Four Successful Homework Strategies
Homework is one of the most fraught areas of secondary teaching. We know it’s important, its impact is visible and its routines don’t offend common sense. Yet in the daily reality of the classroom homework …
Presentation to Pedagoo London
This is the information that accompanied my two presentations to Pedagoo London on 2 March 2013. The event was a grass-roots un-conference run by teachers for our own professional development. It brought together a group …
Grant More Freedom
This journal entry was written as part of the first #blogsync, an initiative in the synchronisation of online journals by UK Educational professionals. The first shared topic was “The Universal Panacea? The number one shift …
Give the Feedback Before the Race is Run
Presented to Teachmeet London on Tuesday 11 December, 2012, to follow is a quick drive through one moment in the life of The Edutronic – with a focus on feedback. Teachmeets are a grass-roots phenomenon …