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Skill-based Learning
Posts relating to transferable FISHING NET skills, the transferable life-skills (sometimes called ‘soft skills’) which are so vital to our students’ characters/learning path/growth, yet often completely ignored or overlooked.
Teaching students with an ‘XBox imagination?’ Bring the game to them!
When teaching students whose imagination is locked within the confines of their games console, learn how a ‘can’t beat ’em, join ’em’ approach can actually produce some brilliant creative writing.
QUICK READ: 5 Teaching strategies to benefit the shy and socially anxious
As a former socially-anxious student, now in the position of a teacher, I’ve gathered some good strategies to support these students in becoming confident as well as academic. Here are my top 5!
Skills for Success
An introduction to FISHING NET skills: the transferable life-skills that everything else rests on.
Slow writing? Quick progress for weak writers.
A great technique to encourage creative writing for special needs and low ability writers.
A simple and effective way to learn from our mistakes
A quick lesson idea which allows students to see mistakes as a means to deeper learning.
QUICK READ: Top 5 tips to build resilience in the classroom
A quick read about different ways to build resilience in students.
Creating a culture of kindness in your classroom
How to create an ethos of kindness in your students, class and school.
Teaching kids to ‘opt in’ and just try!
Why we can’t allow children to avoid things in school because they’re scared.
Are we blaming students for things they haven’t been taught?
Are we blaming students for not doing things that they’ve never been taught?