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
- 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 12, 2021
- 6 min
Why creativity brings freedom
I have worked as a secondary school teacher for the past 18 years and can usually identify the children that read and those that
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Hexis21
- Apr 11, 2021
- 5 min
What is creativity and why is it important?
Creativity has been dubbed one of the most important skills for people to have in the 21st century. It is a skill that is in high demand now
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Hexis21
- Apr 2, 2021
- 2 min
Creativity Tip #5: How to integrate creative thinking & problem solving into the classroom.
Today marks the final creativity tip in a series of five and this one is one of my favourites as it offers challenge, thinking time
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Hexis21
- Apr 1, 2021
- 4 min
Creativity Tip #4: How to integrate creative thinking & problem solving into the classroom.
Integrating creative thinking and problem solving into traditional academic courses that lead directly to standardised tests
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Hexis21
- Mar 31, 2021
- 3 min
Creativity Tip #3: How to integrate creative thinking & problem solving into the classroom.
Today's creativity tip revolves around the idea of transformation. Thinking in terms of transformation will allow your students to consider
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Hexis21
- Mar 30, 2021
- 2 min
Creativity Tip #2: How to integrate creative thinking & problem solving into the classroom.
There is a misconception that constraints are inherently negative and any solution that is created within them is going to fall short
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Hexis21
- Mar 29, 2021
- 5 min
Creativity Tip #1: How to integrate creative thinking & problem solving into the classroom.
This blog post marks the beginning of a series of practical actions that teachers can take to integrate creative thinking
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Hexis21
- Mar 26, 2021
- 2 min
How to supercharge your thinking skills
I’ve been sharing a lot of information about critical thinking and how we can use it as a problem-solving skill. The other strategy...
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