Issue 9.3

‘Snowballing’ as a Method for Finding Research Sources

This is the conclusion of a three-part series on helping students tackle long-term, independent learning projects at Sixth Form level. In this article Andrew Shenton and Melanie Wood expand on the processes involved in ‘snowball sampling’ to provide students with tools to search for and locate reliable and relevant sources.

7 Jan 2020
24mins
Andrew Shenton, Melanie Wood

Creative Teaching & Learning

Learning by Doing: The Power of Immersive Learning Experiences

Not all of the most powerful learning situations are in the classroom. Here Shawn McCusker looks at examples of situated learning and how to provide students with deep learning experiences.

7 Jan 2020
24mins
Shawn McCusker

Creative Teaching & Learning

Getting Keyed up for Thinking

Giving students tools that unlock critical and creative thinking can help them develop thinking skills and embed their learning more deeply. Hanna Miller shows how Thinker’s Keys provide a great framework for motivating students and supporting learning objectives.

7 Jan 2020
24mins
Hanna Miller

Creative Teaching & Learning

Fables that Enable Exploring Values with Aesop

Literature can be a great way to discuss values and to think about different ways people behave. Jeffrey Pflaum updates some of the Aesop’s Fables as a basis for exploring morals and developing emotional intelligence.

7 Jan 2020
24mins
Jeffrey Pflaum

Creative Teaching & Learning

Improving Inclusivity on the GCSE Literature Syllabus

In response to students’ concerns about the lack of inclusion of women and BAME writers at GCSE level, one exam board has taken steps to update their syllabus. Katy Lewis, Head of English, Drama and Languages at Pearson, discusses the move to add a more diverse set of texts to the English GCSE Literature syllabus.

7 Jan 2020
24mins
Katy Lewis

Creative Teaching & Learning

From Superficiality to Well-Reasoned Arguments: Learning to Explain

Students who can explain their ideas have a much more powerful ability to reason and argue a point, but how do you teach someone how to become a better explainer? Chris Curtis highlights some ways his school has leveraged writing and oracy tasks to increase the complexity of their writing.

7 Jan 2020
24mins
Chris Curtis

Creative Teaching & Learning

Stimulating Creative Writing Using Found Objects

Author Kate Wiseman finds all sorts of scope for the imagination in objects she finds mudlarking on the Thames. Here she shares her approach for inspiring high school students to infuse their fiction writing with curiosity and historical-based speculation.

7 Jan 2020
24mins
Kate Wiseman

Creative Teaching & Learning

PISA Rankings Show There is Still Work to Be Done

With the release of the latest PISA education rankings, countries all over the world are comparing their education systems to each other, some patting themselves on the back for their great maths results and improved reading scores, and others working hard to defend themselves against accusations of poor performance, usually justified by citing the differences […]

7 Jan 2020
24mins
Jory Debenham