After doing a lot of research into Growth Mindset (Youtube Carol Dweck as a starting point) I decided to introduce the idea to the children by using the ‘Austin’s butterfly’ story. The Youtube video is available here but I created my own pictures and told them about a boy that was in my class at another school to make it seem…
Category: Improving teacher knowledge
Minecraft in teaching
Every single child in my class absolutely LOVES Minecraft and this got me thinking about how I could create a topic to somehow link heavily to Minecraft without it actually being Minecraft themed…thinking caps on! I decided to develop a potion/Minecraft topic which would have a heavy science theme (currently working with a Y4 class so will be…
The Thing Explainer
OK, I’ve cheated a bit. I suppose this isn’t really to do with teaching per se, but since I received this as a stocking filler over Christmas I can’t put it down! Munroe explains brilliantly everything from the nuclear bomb to the biro using only the thousand most common words to give some really simple explanations…
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