How To Get Your Child Talking
If you're a parent, carer, or teacher, you know that getting children to talk can be challenging.
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Hexis21
- Jul 29
- 4 min
How To Improve Teaching and Learning in the Classroom: Using Mode A & B Teaching
How to improve teaching and learning in the classroom. Highly skilled teachers combine what Tom Sherrington dubs Mode A and B teaching.
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Hexis21
- Jul 3
- 6 min
How to design learning to boost engagement in 8 simple steps
It is around this time of year that many academic departments will be looking ahead in terms of curriculum development.
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Hexis21
- May 24
- 11 min
Why disciplinary literacy doesn't have to hurt
The whys and ways of prioritising subject specific literacy across the senior school What is disciplinary literacy and why is it...
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Hexis21
- Feb 9
- 2 min
How Might We Re-imagine Assessment, Tracking, and Reporting?
In the short video below, I want to share one approach that may help to support the measuring and tracking of skills across the senior...
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Hexis21
- Feb 5
- 9 min
Why continual and planned formative assessment generates learning gains and develops character
Why formative assessment strategies can demonstrate learning as opposed to performance.
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Hexis21
- Dec 22, 2021
- 5 min
The 6 minutes it takes to read this will improve the way your child learns how to learn at home.
As a high school teacher of almost two decades tenure, I can declare confidently that I understand how to teach children how to learn. As...
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Hexis21
- Nov 13, 2021
- 4 min
Supra curriculums: what they are and why schools and students need them
Supra curriculums are activities, events and learning that enrich what already goes on in the classroom. The supra curriculum differs...
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Hexis21
- Nov 10, 2021
- 5 min
The two most important steps to take if you want to sequence learning and teaching
Elaboration is a core teaching and instructional design strategy. At its most basic level, elaboration involves connecting new knowledge...
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Hexis21
- Nov 10, 2021
- 5 min
Traditional school reports are dead
Why progressive reporting offers meaning, direction and iteration As a senior school teacher, I have written thousands of end of...
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Hexis21
- Aug 21, 2021
- 2 min
1 simple & helpful strategy to teach reading for understanding
reading for understanding is so central to learning and meaning making that its importance cannot be overstated
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Hexis21
- Aug 21, 2021
- 8 min
The 8 minutes it will take you to read this will improve your teaching forever.
The interconnected nature of learning, memory, brain function, stress and teaching using research about the science of learning
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Hexis21
- Jul 9, 2021
- 3 min
How do people actually learn?
Do your teaching resources take into account the science of learning? If they don't you may be cognitively overwhelming your students
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Hexis21
- Jun 28, 2021
- 7 min
How OFSTED judges the quality of education
OFSTED state that it will judge schools' quality of education according to the following criteria:
Intent
Implementation
Impact
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Hexis21
- Jun 16, 2021
- 3 min
Saying Goodbye to Pupils
The academic session 2020-1 is drawing to a close. Pupils are scattered around musical rehearsals, Duke of Edinburgh expeditions and...
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Hexis21
- Jun 12, 2021
- 2 min
When The Obstacle Is The Way
There was once a 3rd century BC merchant known as Zeno of Citium who, after being shipwrecked made his way to Athens
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Hexis21
- Jun 1, 2021
- 6 min
How To Get Students To DO Something In The Classroom
I read an article written by Jennifer Gonzalez entitled, ‘To Learn, Students Need to DO Something’ and it made me consider my approach in...
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Hexis21
- May 3, 2021
- 10 min
A Brief Case Study of A Collaborative Critical Thinking Exercise.
We know that the skills most in demand for the Fourth Industrial Revolution towards which we are hurtling towards at breakneck speed
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Hexis21
- Apr 26, 2021
- 3 min
Using systems thinking to uncover connections
Each week I run a discussion group called the Politics and International Relations Society. It is open to pupils aged 12-18 and each week...
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Hexis21
- Apr 23, 2021
- 4 min
Multimedia Learning Principles
Creating is fun, but research-driven creation is better. I write a lot about creativity and how creating within constraints can be
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