About the a long time I have encouraged that lecturers ‘teach to the top’ on also numerous situations to depend. For the most part, I’ve caveated this by integrated the will need to ‘scaffold down,’ but, truthfully, I’ve arrive to feel that the phrase ‘teaching to the top’ has the […]
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Using mini whiteboards in English – David Didau
In accordance to TeacherTapp, 72% most important and 45% secondary teachers use mini whiteboards (MWBs.) There are major variations among diverse subjects in secondaries with 69% of MFL and 57% science lecturers professing to use them but just 28% of English academics. Why may this be? Are MFL and science […]
Flat packed curriculum – David Didau
“It is so easy to be wrong – and to persist in being wrong – when the costs of being wrong are paid by others.” Thomas Sowell Why do we buy so much flat pack furniture? First, it’s many times more affordable than bespoke hand-made furniture, and second, it also […]
A glimpse into the wardrobe of King David and King Solomon, 3000 years ago
Image: Wool fibers dyed with Royal Purple,~1000 BCE, Timna Valley, Israel. view more Credit: Dafna Gazit, courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority “King Solomon created for himself the carriage he created it of wooden from Lebanon. Its posts he manufactured of silver, its foundation of gold. Its seat was upholstered with […]