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HoDSciSci March Roundtable: Teacher Assessed Grades
March brings us to the elephant in the room of most HoDs minds: Teacher Assessed Grades. As it stands there is still woefully little specificity and guidance from The Powers That Be. We thought the...
View ArticleCogSciSci Book review: How We Learn: The New Science of Education and the...
A book review by Dom Shibli – Senior Lecturer in Secondary Science at the University of Hertfordshire This is a book I read a few months ago. But instead of being returned to the bookshelf for me to...
View ArticleCogSciSci Book review: Greg Ashman’s The Power of Explicit Teaching and...
A book review by Matt Ben David a science teacher from London. Greg Ashman’s The Power of Explicit Teaching and Direct Instruction is a 134-page, no-holds-barred, whistle-stop tour of, well, explicit...
View ArticleHoDSciSci’s advice to new HoDs
We asked the members of the HoDSciSci staff room slack channel what advice they would give new Heads of Department. Here are some of their gems. If you are a new HoD and want to join over 300 others...
View ArticleJames Bullous’s thoughts on CogSciSci Bath ‘2020’
James has been kind enough to write up some takeaways for those that could not make it to beautifully rainy Bath yesterday. Click the link above to go to his twitter page and find links to his other...
View ArticleShelley Parry’s CogSciSci ‘Bath 2020’ Quick Wins and Slow Gains
Shelley is here with her first ever blog!! Here is her take on the talks she heard yesterday. It’s great to help teachers find a platform to share their thoughts. We fund Shelly’s to be a great...
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Disciplinary Knowledge – Intent
By Ryan Badham At the very end of the previous academic year, we were joined by a team of Ofsted inspectors whom corroborated our own opinions of the strengths and weaknesses of our department and...
View ArticlerED Brum 2022: Reflections from a ResearchED Newbie
A lifetime or so ago, back in 2018, Tom Bennett came to my school to give a talk to staff. I remember it because towards the end of the session, Tom talked about ResearchED and the conference events...
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Choke points and Pitfalls- reflections from a virtual day at ResearchEd...
We are proud to welcome Dr Sarah Benskin– Assistant Principal: Curriculum, T&L and CPD; Science teacher and lover of educational research to the world of blogging. Here she has a great run down of...
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CogSciSci 2023 Manchester 30th May 2023
It’s here! The next CogSciSci conference is just around the corner! Join us at Wright Robinson College in Manchester on Tuesday 30th May to discuss all things cognitive science and science education....
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