TED talks – Top free video resources
>Louie Schwartzberg: The hidden beauty of pollination A beautiful and moving film capturing the magic of the process of pollination. The film starts at about 3 mins after the introductory talk. This...
View ArticleA Future More Beautiful?
TED.com Architect Thomas Heatherwick shows five recent projects featuring ingenious bio-inspired designs. Some are remakes of the ordinary: a bus, a bridge, a power station … And one is an...
View ArticleWhat counts as creativity in mathematics?
“..to suggest that an educational policy, a subject on the curriculum or a teaching approach, promotes or involves creativity is usually sufficient to commend it. It is usually not thought to be...
View ArticleHow to demonstrate learning in 20 minutes.
One question that seems to be dominating the waking hours of many teachers is… “How do you show learning in the 20 minutes an inspector is in the room?” All teachers know that children aren’t learning...
View ArticleTeaching children to take charge
Kiran Bir Sethi teaches kids to take charge Kiran Bir Sethi shows how her groundbreaking Riverside School in India teaches kids life’s most valuable lesson: “I can.” Watch her students take local...
View ArticleLet’s all “do” creativity!
The problem: Creativity and creative curricula are surviving the change of government – and in my opinion so they should. Creativity hasn’t gone away because we’re on the brink of a new curriculum, but...
View ArticleFlip video camera: What can I use it for?
If you have got access to a flip video camera and haven’t had a go a using it to support learning yet – make it a top-of your list must try! Don’t worry about the whole process of downloading, editing,...
View ArticleStart them thinking: Challenging topic or lesson starters.
Short post this time, but if you’re looking for a challenging starter for a topic or lesson next term that will get students thinking, take a look at these illustrations from Paul Kuczynski (Website is...
View ArticleOfsted 2012: “Well judged” teaching strategies?
“Ideal teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross, then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of...
View ArticleOfsted 2012: Challenging tasks matched to pupils’ learning needs
Challenging tasks Now here’s a lad who likes a challenge! (Very talented violinist – Edinburgh Festival 2011) “When evaluating the quality of teaching in the school, inspectors must consider: “the...
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