CPD ideas from twitter

More CPD ideas from Twitter. This blog follows on from my previous one (0) and discusses some other ideas that I have implemented using CPD that I have gained mainly from Twitter. Starters and Feedback. I have updated my starter questions to encourage retrieval of past work, and I do this by mainly setting low stake quizzes. However, I do feel as I have missed a trick here. I appreciate the importance of feedback but by allowing the class to mark the work themselves I have allowed them to write down the workings and the answers as we were going through it as a class. From Effective Peer and Self-assessment. (1) “ If learners can reflect accurately and honestly, the evidence can back up teacher’s judgements and give an insight into pupil thinking. ” Unfortunately not all my students were reflecting honestly. This is a hard thing for me, as a teacher to write, as I have always thought that I could trust all my classes, but it has become apparent that some of my students a...

This is my second blog, and it made sense to write it on the CPD that has mainly come from using twitter (as well as any other resources). These ideas are CPD that I have introduced into my lessons myself, there are obviously other ideas that have come from school CPD sessions. Not Enquiry Based Learning: The first module on my MA course was  Learning Through Enquiry Using ICT at the University of Hertfordshire. I have taken the following definition for Enquiry based learning (EBL): “ EBL  describes an environment in which learning is driven by a process of enquiry owned by the student. ” (1)    I immediately did not like the idea that a student learns best through the enquiry, and I still do not. My biggest misgiving was that just because a student finally works something out for themselves does not mean they have learnt anything, they might quickly forget how they reached the end point, especially if they took many routes to get there. Seco...