One day we had a training day run by an professional development educator and OFSTED expert, Bradley Lightbody. During the course of the day we were informed that OFSTED don’t mind five minutes lesson plans. If you are used to spending 60/70% of your time typing and planning, this is the news you have been…

Consider the following list when things might not be going too well, and remember, you are not a veteran teacher just yet, although you play your part in the war. I mention ‘Teacher Training’ a lot. I do this because I can’t substantiate the claim that there is any difference between a Certificate in Education…

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Today we had staff development courtesy of Bradley Lightbody, CEO of www.collegenet.co.uk He reminded us that we don’t need reams and reams of paperwork (in some sense of the word) to be able to deliver an outstanding lesson. Our teaching practice hinges on more important things like keeping our professional skills up to date, or ETL’s…

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The +XP Generator Gamification: Learner Engagement Intervention Abstract This report explores the relationship between level one students with various learning difficulties and a ‘gamification’ based rewards system that awards XP (experience points) for effort. The system is also designed to be exclusively positive for learners allowing them to make an attempt at an answer and still…