This began as part of a course called the Middle Leadership Development Project. For my project I chose to focus on aligning and improving the relationship between physics and maths at our school. My school had two physics teachers. In the following year the other one would move onto her next school while I remained.…

Thanks to @miss_jayin who helped devise this. Our school has long desired to free itself of the tyranny of exams and move towards authentic assessment. Given the freedom I had with my class I clearly should have being doing more over these past few years. I plan to take advantage of the impetus and the…

Early on in my teaching career I grew frustrated with the deciding the exact grade boundaries for internal exams. So I created two tools. IGCSE Calculator IB Calculator

Here is a scheme I have been thinking about if we are required to return to school.  Subject “Clusters” Actual numbers will, of course, be different and we may rely on many teachers teaching non-specialist subjects. and limit optional subject. Assuming 90ish students per year we can split each year into 3-4 groups. And thus…

I teach students between the ages of 16 and 19, specialising on mathematical components of a more generalised course . I am uncertain as to the location of the inflection point between pushing critical understanding and just mechanically working through procedures to arrive at an answer in learning maths. However, it still continues to surprises…