Teaching Time
Tomorrow I'm back in the classroom, Thursday is the ski trip meeting, next Thursday is Y8 Parents Evening, Duke of Edinburgh lunchtime training sessions start soon, I'm not sure what I'm meant to be teaching and I've forgotten a lot of names!
And then there is Antarctica; I've started to pull together some teaching materials, but they're nowhere near complete and they rely on the data from Portsmouth which isn't available yet. But I do have lots of photos. But there again is death by pretty powerpoint going to motivate and inspire?
It wasn't meant to be quite this disorganised, but my plan of going in last Friday and sorting everything out didn't work as my mouse batteries had run out, the server was re-booting and I wanted to give blood. Oh well, I'll just go in and see what happens!
Happy New Year to everyone and good luck for the start of term, let me know how they go, your stories may make me feel better!
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Mrs OC,
Thanks for your comment and I hope that you had a good Christmas and New Year and are enjoying the new term.
Despite my misgivings of death by powerpoint the lessons seemed to go down really well with the students. Their attention and their insightful questions really impressed me. It serves to highlight the simple power of stories in teaching. Yes, AFL, animations etc. are important but a great story is more powerful than any teaching technique in my opinion.
Phil
Welcome back!
Phil,
I'm glad you've made it back and pleased it all went so well.
Having looked at just a few photos posted on the site today I'm sure your pupils will be delighted to suffer 'death by powerpoint' and as I know you'll talk passionately about your experiences they're bound to be inspired.
It will also help if you still have the explorer type beard seen in one of the photos?! ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT!
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