Teaching reflections.

Improving literacy and memory through retrieval quizzing, in schools situated in socially deprived areas              “Imagine, holding a hollow glass ball with walls so thin. Even with your lightest touch it bursts, shattering into a thousand pieces.”  My mentor and head of department, describing the resilience of our students from a Cheshire town with high levels…

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Are you sitting comfortably? Then we’ll begin… Story time may be among the least likely things you’d expect to find in a science class, but when Lewis Stewart and his colleagues realised students’ working memories were being overloaded with complicated ideas, they decided to turn to the power of spinning a yarn to help weave meaningful learning…  What was…

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