Showing posts with label Excellent Teaching and Learning sites. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Excellent Teaching and Learning sites. Show all posts
Thursday, 2 December 2010
Friday, 5 February 2010
Death by POWERPOINT - Some useful tips to improve your presentations!
Inspired by Presentation Zen, this presentation is a great reminder not to bore students or ourselves to death with POWERPOINT. I think most teachers are guilty of creating dull presentations, but the truth is that the problem goes beyond education. I think there are more bad ones out there in the world than good.
If teachers are guilty of producing bad presentations, then students can be even worse, creating slides with waaaay too much text which they then proceed to read from the screen. They can be forgiven for this, because they rarely see any good examples. If you follow the advice in the presentation, you will impress your audiences much more – though you will have to know/rehearse what you’re going to say, because reading it from the screen is not an option. I hope you find it useful!
If teachers are guilty of producing bad presentations, then students can be even worse, creating slides with waaaay too much text which they then proceed to read from the screen. They can be forgiven for this, because they rarely see any good examples. If you follow the advice in the presentation, you will impress your audiences much more – though you will have to know/rehearse what you’re going to say, because reading it from the screen is not an option. I hope you find it useful!
Wednesday, 13 January 2010
Great Starters and Plenaries site
Dear all,
To keep the spirit of Starters and Plenaries alive - I've found a fantastic website with powerpoints/word documents using a variety of techniques. It's Geography related but am sure you can adapt them!
Hope this helps!
http://www.radicalgeography.co.uk/Startersandplenaries.html
Regards,
Joe Morrin (Geography)
Thursday, 1 October 2009
The Teacher Effectiveness Programme
Steve Smith from the LA kindly furnished me with this useful website link. The Teacher Effectiveness Programme (TEEP) was set up in 2002 by the Gatsby Charity Foundation to develop a model of effective teaching and learning drawn from research and best practice. They have created a model for Learning and Teaching that is interesting and if you sign-up to their site you can access some high quality lesson plans and resources. Terry O'Dea from Bexley LA said:
"At the recent Triple Science seminar I attended, I came across TEEP for getting a powerful model of teaching and learning going in a school/authority - as in Kingston-upon-Hull and Birmingham. TEEP seems to incorporate all of the NS aspects we try to deliver but as a coherent, generic model. The power of the model, according to Hull LA colleagues, is that all teachers in a school use the same model regardless of subject area and so a common vocabularly is possible across the departments. Easier for leading and monitoring teaching and learning for the SLT/ML also. It is also cross-phase in application - ie. a universal model.
Hull colleagues characterised the outcomes from applying TEEP emphases as 'more independent and active learning going on in schools across departments'.
Hull colleagues characterised the outcomes from applying TEEP emphases as 'more independent and active learning going on in schools across departments'.
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