Monthly Archives: May 2021

From the Earth to the Moon in 270 BC

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The brain is wider than the sky, For, put them side by side, The one the other will include With ease, and you beside. Emily Dickinson How did human beings first work out the…

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Schools and the Tyranny of Merit – David Didau: The Learning Spy

One of the books I read last year that has most stayed with me is Michael Sandel’s The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good? In it, Sandel argues that meritocracy is inherently harmful… Continued here https://ift.tt/3uqdjMf

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Measuring the radius of the Earth in 240 BC

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The brain is wider than the sky, For, put them side by side, The one the other will include With ease, and you beside. Emily Dickinson, ‘The Brain’ Most science teachers find that ‘Space’…

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The problem with ‘it makes the reader want to read on’ – David Didau: The Learning Spy

One of the most common and irritating of responses to be found strewn through students’ literary or linguistic analysis is that a writer will have a made of particular choice in order to ‘make the… Continued here https://ift.tt/2ShISdV

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Binding energy: the pool table analogy

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Nuclear binding energy and binding energy per nucleon are difficult concepts for A-level physics students to grasp. I have found the ‘pool table analogy’ that follows helpful for students to wrap their heads around…

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Attendance in primary schools before and after the last lockdown – Education Datalab blog

Disadvantaged pupils in primary schools appear to have missed 50% more sessions than other pupils during the Autumn Term Continued here: https://ift.tt/2RQ6Zjy

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Visualising How Transformers Work

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‘Transformers’ is one of the trickier topics to teach for GCSE Physics and GCSE Combined Science. I am not going to dive into the scientific principles underlying electromagnetic induction here (although you could read…

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Three Pillars of Vocabulary Teaching – The Confident Teacher

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that vocabulary knowledge is crucial for pupils’ school success. Pupils are language sponges, learning thousands of words each year. Like increases in a… Continued here: https://ift.tt/3vIvZYS

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Have disadvantaged pupils fallen further behind during the pandemic? – Education Datalab blog

Read the headline findings from an ongoing study exploring the effects of COVID on the attainment gap Continued here: https://ift.tt/2RxMxE2

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Benchmarking GCSE results using historical data – Education Datalab blog

Some thoughts about benchmarking 2021 teacher assessed grades against historical GCSE results Continued here: https://ift.tt/3vCW1N4

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