Practising Science blog
Create curiosity
Does your KS3 science course make students wade through topics like balanced forces, oxidation & reduction and biotic/abiotic factors? OR does it create curiosity about questions like these, and guide...
Create curiosity
Does your KS3 science course make students wade through topics like balanced forces, oxidation & reduction and biotic/abiotic factors? OR does it create curiosity about questions like these, and guide...
GCSE success means 3 essential curriculum dimen...
Why teach Working Scientifically? Ofsted It’s official! A one-dimensional content curriculum is not good enough. Ofsted inspectors expect a second dimension Working Scientifically, or scientific enquiry (Ofsted, 2021). Students need to...
GCSE success means 3 essential curriculum dimen...
Why teach Working Scientifically? Ofsted It’s official! A one-dimensional content curriculum is not good enough. Ofsted inspectors expect a second dimension Working Scientifically, or scientific enquiry (Ofsted, 2021). Students need to...
The invisible gorilla in your curriculum
In a classic experiment, most subjects fail to notice a lady in a gorilla suit walking across the screen, because they're so focussed on their task they were giving. Are you falling...
The invisible gorilla in your curriculum
In a classic experiment, most subjects fail to notice a lady in a gorilla suit walking across the screen, because they're so focussed on their task they were giving. Are you falling...
Differentiation strategies for mastery
Mastery means going beyond knowledge recall - we expect deep understanding, application, and analysis. It also means differentiating in a big way so that all students can reach mastery -...
Differentiation strategies for mastery
Mastery means going beyond knowledge recall - we expect deep understanding, application, and analysis. It also means differentiating in a big way so that all students can reach mastery -...
Could more girls choose physics?
Physicists are not known for their emotional outbursts. But the comments of headteacher and social mobility commissioner Katharine Birbalsingh made many hot under the collar. She told a government committee...
Could more girls choose physics?
Physicists are not known for their emotional outbursts. But the comments of headteacher and social mobility commissioner Katharine Birbalsingh made many hot under the collar. She told a government committee...
Stop the D.I.K.R. Virus from harming your lessons
We may have seen off one pandemic, but there's another one sweeping through our classrooms. It goes by the name of DIKR, or Direct Instruction in a Knowledge Rich curriculum. Are...
Stop the D.I.K.R. Virus from harming your lessons
We may have seen off one pandemic, but there's another one sweeping through our classrooms. It goes by the name of DIKR, or Direct Instruction in a Knowledge Rich curriculum. Are...