Megan Smart

The ocean has been absorbing 90 per cent of the excess heat created by greenhouse gas emissions, but now it seems the capacity to do this is rapidly declining. #Echobox=1739147299" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">newscientist.com/article/246738…

Could a foam made from cotton and squid help solve the microplastic crisis? Use real-world context when studying polymers with 14–16s, with downloadable: 📰 Story 💻 Summary slide ❔ Questions #teachingresources #teachingtips

@sainsburys is it normal to wait approximately 30 minutes (has been longer!) for my click and collect order to arrive when I collect it from the store? If this is the case I'd like to know so I can find somewhere else to shop 👍

Here is the second visual SEND summary @TeachLeadAAli and I have created based on chapter 2 of amzn.eu/d/hw6OtSQ This covers low effort (for the teacher), high impact strategies for reading, listening, writing and time management. HQ PDF: drive.google.com/file/d/1XbglOt…

🏛️ PILLARS OF EFFECTIVE PRACTICE 🟢 Understand how learning happens – ‘Why Don’t Students Like School?’ by @DTWillingham 🔵 Establish behaviour and engagement routines – ‘The Classroom Management Handbook’ by @coachdowley and @ollie_lovell 🟠 Teach explicitly to build knowledge, develop independence, and achieve mastery - ‘Explicit Instruction’ by Anita Archer and Charles Hughes. ☝️REPOST to support my work and download FREE HQ copies here: jamieleeclark.com/graphics

Physics teachers. Here are 3 Newton's 3rd Law demos which hopefully will result in clarity for students on what is often a challenging topic. All that is needed are 2 sets of luggage scales. Credit to Tony Reeves for this fab idea 👏👏👏👏 Part 1: youtube.com/shorts/DNu-hL9…

📙 EXPLICIT INSTRUCTION! This new A3 poster captures some of the main ideas from the excellent book ‘Explicit Instruction: Effective & Efficient Teaching’ by Anita L. Archer & Charles A. Hughes. Highly recommend you pick up a copy! 🫵 REPOST and download a FREE HQ copy here: jamieleeclark.com/graphics 📙 READ MORE: explicitinstruction.org

Adaptive Teaching: Scaffold, Scale, Structure and Style @MrGoodwin23 & @AlexJQuigley

Back to school & want to build a strong culture? Here is a thread 🧵 of 5 blog posts with concrete strategies that you can implement from day 1. 1. Four Whole School Strategies to set pupils up to pay 100% attention in your lessons. 1/5 bunsenblue.wordpress.com/2023/04/15/set…

For the last 6 months or so, I have been using AI as an Executive Headteacher. Here is what I have learnt... in no particular order! A thread 🧵 @Headteacherchat #ArtificialInteligence

This transverse and longitudinal wave sim is superb 👏👏👏👏👏geogebra.org/m/auyft2pd

Over the last few years I’ve spent quite a bit of time thinking about instructional coaching. Here are five resources that you might find helpful whatever stage of implementation you’re at. 👇🏽

Lots of teachers & leaders have reached out to me over the last year, wanting to implement: ✅ 'All hands up' rather than 'hands down' cold calling ✅ High frequency 'checks for listening' Here is a thread of resources (podcasts & blogs) to help, which I'll keep adding to 🧵 1/

GCSE Chemistry teachers. Lovely revision resources here 👀 ecclesfield-school.com/students/revis…

GCSE and A-Level Chemistry teachers. This fantastic website has hundreds of great resources to use 🙂drjwinters.weebly.com/fill-in-the-ga…

GCSE Biology teachers. Lovely revision resources here including flashcards and mindmaps🧬 ecclesfield-school.com/students/revis…

Dylan Wiliam said that Cognitive Load Theory is ‘the single most important thing for teachers to know’. This poster summarises some key ideas from CLT and offers 6 strategies to optimise instruction and maximise learning.

This poster captures what’s inside my upcoming book ‘Teaching One-Pagers: Evidence-Informed Summaries for Busy Educational Professionals’ with @JohnCattEd. The book contains 55+ summaries organised into 3 collections: 1. Learning & Memory 2. Expert Teaching Principles 3. Classroom Culture 📥 Download (the very meta) HQ poster: bit.ly/3RNWASc

Don't miss out on fantastic ideas for your classroom and teaching in our March issue, here 🔽 edu.rsc.org/eic/march-2024… #iteachchem #STEMed #scied #edchatie #teachingtips