mrgreenw00d

Learning to reflect

I trained in 2012/3 by completing a PGCE. I genuinely enjoyed the course and at the time I felt that I was getting a good introduction to the world of teaching and being shown the best way to teach. The work load was challenging of course but, more difficult, was the fact that for meContinue reading “Learning to reflect”

What’s the point in practical work?

I’d planned to write this post and had a bit of an idea drafted out, but I finished it earlier than I planned because I was inspired by this tweet: Until very recently, the idea of teaching science with limited practical work horrified me. How can it be science if they aren’t doing practical work?Continue reading “What’s the point in practical work?”

Resource: AQA GCSE SoW

I faced a strange problem recently where I knew that my students were listening. Cold call questioning was giving reasonable answers across the room and engagement was pretty strong. The issue came as soon as I wanted the class to write any notes. Even made as brief as possible, there is a lot of contentContinue reading “Resource: AQA GCSE SoW”

Hello World

Firstly, welcome to my first ever blog, and thank you for coming here to read my take on all things Cog Sci and classroom based. To put this site into context, I have been teaching chemistry for 8 years across two very different schools. One was a highly successful state grammar school based in aContinue reading “Hello World”