Year: 2016
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Recruiting for shortage subjects – new kid on the block?
I recently had a great conversation with Chris Rose from Future Teaching Scholars, an initiative from the Department for Education that’s being run by the Education Development Trust. They are doing something new and exciting with recruiting Physics and Maths teachers: part-funding students through their undergraduate Physics- or Maths-related degrees, with efforts to have these…
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My Staffrm Highlights – Student Feedback, Teacher Responsibility, Homework and Scrabble
Having two blogs is a bit of a nightmare at times. I tend to use Cupofteaching for anything longer and my Staffrm blog for those shorter pieces. Most of mine tend to be shorter, so I keep drifting towards Staffrm. Not that I blog very often. Anyway, here is the low down on my Staffrm blogging in condensed form –…
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Mail merge: life saver? Personalised feedback for students
I wrote an article on my Staffrm Blog about how I use Mail Merge. I wanted to share that here too. The picture above shows an extra from one of the feedback sheets, automatically populated using Mail Merge to give each student individualised feedback on an assessment, along with their target and historical grades. Here’s the rest…
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