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Martin Burrett

My GCSE Science - 57 views

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science GCSE videos

shared by Martin Burrett on 14 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 14 Apr 12
     
    A good collection of biology, chemistry and physics videos for GCSE level students. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science
taconi12

Fractions and Percentages (MEP - GCSE - Unit 11) - Resources - TES - 4 views

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fraction percentage math lessonplans

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  • taconi12 on 14 Feb 12
     
    The topic of Fractions and Percentages from the GCSE books of the Mathematics Enhancement Program. For information about these resources and an index for the whole collection please visit http://www.mrbartonmaths.com/CIMT.htm Keywords: Fraction, Add, Subtract, Multiply, Divide, Numerator, Denominator, Percentage, Convert, Equivalent, VAT, Increase, Decrease, Reverse, Context, Compound, Interest, Exponential, Growth, Depreciation.
C CC

Education Apps: SmartStudy - Revision for GCSE Sciences and Foundation Maths - 24 views

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maths sciences gcse revision apps

shared by C CC on 29 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • C CC on 29 Mar 14
     
    Science and maths revision apps
Sirkku Nikamaa-Linder

CBI: Our education systems are not delivering - while average performance rises gently,... - 0 views

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CBI report

shared by Sirkku Nikamaa-Linder on 22 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Spending on education accelerated still further after 1997, rising in real terms by 71% by 2010-11.
  • UK ranks among the highest spending OECD countries measured in terms of percentage of GDP on education.
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  • but we are being outperformed by nations which spend less.
  • the challenge lies not in what we spend, but in what we do.
  • explanation for the conveyor belt comes not from money, therefore, but from other incentives that schools face.
  • Schools have become used to governments setting blanket targets,
  • We should not be surprised that these drive behaviour – but not always the behaviour that the Department for Education wants.
  • The percentage of pupils gaining five ‘good’ A*-C GCSEs has increased by 50% over the last decade.
  • this should be an indicator of great success
  • has been questioned by many commentators.
  • When we look at whether the improvement on the GCSE metric is general or specific to those close to the grade boundary, it is clear that this measure is driving what is happening in schools.
  • intensive targeting of resources on pupils just below the C grade and/or an increase in teachers’ expertise in ‘teaching to the test’ has been behind  improvements.
  • Whatever the explanation, it doesn’t inspire confidence that the rise in exam grades for average ability candidates really reflects an increase across all groups in mastery of the subjects studied.
  • Narrowly-defined targets like these, based only on exam results subtly inhibit the overall education of young people.
    • Sirkku Nikamaa-Linder
      Sirkku Nikamaa-Linder on 22 Nov 12
       
      This is why Finland only has one national test....
  • If an acceptable level is reached, failure among a substantial minority is tolerated.
  • At earlier stages in the system, similar testing frameworks focus school accountability on achieving a certain percentage of pupils reaching a defined average, rather than a focus on absolute attainment.
  • it is possible to dramatically reduce attainment gaps in their primary school populations and raise standards on a broader basis than the UK has managed.
N Butler

BBC - GCSE Bitesize - English Literature - Video summaries - 60 views

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media education videos news resources smartboard interactive scholastic sports maths math whiteboard bbc gcse english literature video summaries

shared by N Butler on 28 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • N Butler on 28 Oct 11
     
    Great place for video summaries on stories.
Caroline Kuhn

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/388838/GCE_AS... - 3 views

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mathematics government curriculum

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  • Caroline Kuhn on 12 Feb 15
     
    The 2016 math changes for GCSE and A levels
Martin Burrett

Creating Wonder in High Prior Attainers by @mathsmuse - 4 views

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wonder

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  • Martin Burrett on 26 Nov 18
     
    "High prior attainers. Gifted and talented. High Achievers. The students that are aiming for the very top grades at GCSE, that we're all determined to keep at A level for our subject. We put on trips. We run extracurricular clubs. We bring out the "Challenge Questions". We create peer mentoring. But one thing we often neglect is developing their sense of curiosity in our subject, developing that sense of wonder and awe for the best little bits, that need to actually just know how/ why/where/what is going on with this little bit of your subject."
Martin Burrett

Martin Maths - 14 views

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maths YouTube video

shared by Martin Burrett on 11 Jul 18 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 11 Jul 18
     
    "A YouTube channel with a great collection of maths GCSE explanations."
Martin Burrett

On the stretching of brighter history pupils by @historylecturer - 2 views

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history

shared by Martin Burrett on 05 Mar 19 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 05 Mar 19
     
    "The education twitter-sphere has been all a-buzz today with stuff about helping (or failing) bright pupils. I am not at all qualified to contribute directly to the debate; I can only recount my own experiences, and anecdotal evidence is not very valuable in such a case. Because of my work as an examiner, I meet history teachers from scores of other schools every summer, and I do not think my approaches were in any way unusual. Yes, I taught at an independent school, so it was selective in terms of ability to pay fees. It was not very selective in terms of ability; plenty of our pupils did well to get C passes at GCSE with a couple of Bs thrown in."
Martin Burrett

What Makes an 'Authentic' Teacher? by @RichardJARogers - 19 views

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shared by Martin Burrett on 27 Mar 18 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 27 Mar 18
     
    "It was lunchtime but I didn't mind. Neither did my German teacher. I ran upstairs and entered her room. She was free - success! I pulled out my listening exam script: a set of learned responses to verbal questions that could come up in my GCSE exam. I'm sure she was hungry and I'm sure she wanted lunch. I didn't think about that when I was 16 years old. I probably should have."
Virginia Meadow

eChalk: Teaching resources for interactive whiteboards and data projectors - 2 views

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interactive periodic table chemistry tetris

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  • Virginia Meadow on 23 Sep 09
     
    Powerful interactive resources designed for whole-class teaching. Online educational games, classroom resources and lesson activities for interactive whiteboards and data projectors. Put some fun into your lessons with our exceptional science, maths, English language, literature, history, music physical education and modern foreign languages software." />/css/resourceList.css
Martin Burrett

@Digicoled's Digest - Computing, for all? - 3 views

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computing Royal Society comment news

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  • Martin Burrett on 11 Nov 17
     
    "Evidence gathered from The Royal Society showed that "pedagogies for computing in schools remain less developed than those for other subjects", and that "the provision of the subject at GCSE was sporadic". Recommendations from the report suggest a push to realise the ambition of recent curriculum and qualifications reforms, to improve gender balance in computing, and ensure there is a strong supply of computing teachers entering the profession."
Maureen Greenbaum

Sugata Mitra - the professor with his head in the cloud | Education | The Guardian - 16 views

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hole in the wall SOLE Mitra children learning school teaching education

shared by Maureen Greenbaum on 05 Jul 16 - No Cached
  • “A generation of children has grown up with continuous connectivity to the internet. A few years ago, nobody had a piece of plastic to which they could ask questions and have it answer back. The Greeks spoke of the oracle of Delphi. We’ve created it. People don’t talk to a machine. They talk to a huge collective of people, a kind of hive. Our generation [Mitra is 64] doesn’t see that. We just see a lot of interlinked web pages
  • “Within five years, you will not be able to tell if somebody is consulting the internet or not. The internet will be inside our heads anywhere and at any time. What then will be the value of knowing things? We shall have acquired a new sense. Knowing will have become collective.”
  • if you imagine me and my phone as a single entity, yes. Very soon, asking somebody to read without their phone will be like telling them to read without their glasses.”
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  • Twenty children are asked a “big question” such as “Why do we learn history?”, “Is the universe infinite?”, “Should children ever go to prison?” or “How do bees make honey?” They are then left to find the answers using five computers. The ratio of four children to one computer is deliberate: Mitra insists that the children must collaborate. “There should be chaos, noise, discussion and running about,” he says.
  • . Year 4 children (aged eight to nine) were given questions from GCSE physics and biology papers. After using their Sole computers for 45 minutes, their average test scores on three sets of questions were 25%, 26% and 13%. Three months later – the school having taught nothing on these subjects in the interim – they were tested again, individually and without warning. The scores rose to 57%, 80% and 16% respectively, suggesting the children continued researching the questions in their own time.
  • he says the main benefit of his methods is that children’s self-confidence increases so that they challenge adult perceptions.
  • the propositions that children can benefit from collaborative learning and that banning internet use from exams will get trickier, to the point where it may prove futile. It’s worth remembering that new technologies nearly always deliver less than we expect at first and far more than we expect later on, often in unexpected ways.
Tina Webb

BBC - GCSE Bitesize - Games index - 51 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...games

shared by Tina Webb on 30 Jul 11 - Cached
  • Tina Webb on 30 Jul 11
     
    Virtual games
Susan Lister

Defence Dynamics - Lesson Plans - Maths - 64 views

www.defencedynamics.mod.uk/...1

teaching resource lesson plan application

shared by Susan Lister on 04 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Susan Lister on 04 Oct 09
     
    Great site for putting the maths in context. Could expand these lessons
  • Susan Lister on 04 Oct 09
     
    These type of activities really help motivation as they are real-life situations
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