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...

Why formative assessment strategies can demonstrate learning as opposed to performance.

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...

Supra curriculums are activities, events and learning that enrich what already goes on in the classroom. The supra curriculum differs...

Elaboration is a core teaching and instructional design strategy. At its most basic level, elaboration involves connecting new knowledge...

Why progressive reporting offers meaning, direction and iteration As a senior school teacher, I have written thousands of end of...

reading for understanding is so central to learning and meaning making that its importance cannot be overstated

The interconnected nature of learning, memory, brain function, stress and teaching using research about the science of learning

There was once a 3rd century BC merchant known as Zeno of Citium who, after being shipwrecked made his way to Athens

I read an article written by Jennifer Gonzalez entitled, ‘To Learn, Students Need to DO Something’ and it made me consider my approach in...

We know that the skills most in demand for the Fourth Industrial Revolution towards which we are hurtling towards at breakneck speed

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...

I have worked as a secondary school teacher for the past 18 years and can usually identify the children that read and those that

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

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

Integrating creative thinking and problem solving into traditional academic courses that lead directly to standardised tests

Today's creativity tip revolves around the idea of transformation. Thinking in terms of transformation will allow your students to consider

There is a misconception that constraints are inherently negative and any solution that is created within them is going to fall short

This blog post marks the beginning of a series of practical actions that teachers can take to integrate creative thinking

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...