I am in the process of moving house due to various job changes. Anyone who has ever even glanced at someone at any point in the house moving process will instantly feel a pang of empathy, and anyone who has gone through the process of selling their house and buying another house may need to
I am a relatively new convert to the maths CPD community, and my gateway drug was Craig Barton’s seminal “Reflect, Expect, Check, Explain” – a sprawling, yet tightly focussed, work that deftly balances the weighty tide of education academia and the stochastic fever dream that is a typical year 9 classroom. One of the interesting
MathsConf23 has now been and gone, and as my first ever maths teacher conference I have to say it was an absolute blast – the team at La Salle education should be feeling very proud right now. I’ve been interested in the past, but a young family and the demands of normal teaching always made
I have a strange relationship with race, but suffice to say that it doesn’t really register with me day-to-day. By and large, I surround myself with people who are like minded, and I honestly believe that the vast majority of people in the UK really don’t give a damn about your skin colour – or,
Twitter has been full of intense debate over the past week about the methods that teachers use for different topics. While I’m sure a lot of it is very much old news to a vast majority of teachers, I always enjoy seeing the debate spark up. This post contains my reflections on one of the
Hands up if you’ve ever had a similar train of thought as the following when doing medium term planning: “Okay, middle set year 9, fractions… They can probably simplify fractions, so I won’t bother with that too much, but I know, just know, that a fair few will be a bit ropey with equivalent fractions,
Amidst the undulating and unrelenting grimness of current events, I feel almost bad for being excited about my promotion to Director of Learning for Maths in September, and the fire that it’s lit in my, until now, rather limited CPD efforts. Almost as if it was slightly tacky, and I should instead be walking around