Through the threshold is a log of a personal journey about learning about education. Despite having taught since 2008, I still feel I have a long way to go to reach mastery in this field. I write to share my opinions and fully expect that I may well be wrong on a great many things. I believe the only way for me to pass through the threshold concepts of teaching is through reflection and debate.
Teaching
- Learning Theory and Educational Neuroscience (PGCE assignment)
- What I learned about edtech (part 1: social media)
- What I learned about edtech (part 2: mobile tech)
- What I learned about edtech (part 3: screencasting)
- Is Content King?
- Goals for 2016-2017
- Grade 12 revision advice
- Intensive EAL support and differentiation in biology
- What is the best place to start teaching DP biology?
- Routines
- From Knowledge to Understandings
- Why revising for seven hours a day isn’t necessarily a bad thing
- Biology vocabulary
- Why I am not a fan of the MYP
- This much I know about EAL teaching
- What is the evidence for the IB ideology?
- Sequencing facts before concepts: natural selection
- What I learned about teaching biology this year 17-18
University guidance
- UniBudy and BridgeU
- Working with BridgeU
- Creating a University and Careers Guidance Program (Part 1)
- Creating a University and Careers Guidance Program (Part 2)
- Creating a University and Careers Guidance Program (Part 3)
- Creating a University and Careers Guidance Program (Part 4)
- Counsellor day at Esade
- 13 reflections at the end of my first guidance cycle
- Life-long on the job learning: creating a guidance program from scratch (part 1)
- Life-long on the job learning: creating a guidance program from scratch (part 2)
- Going Dutch: An overview of Dutch HE
- The Future You Festival
- Team culture: teachers and counsellors
- Guidance Handover Notes part 1
- Guidance Handover Notes part 2
- Global Unversity Guidance: Review of #edtech platforms
- Unifrog: review
- BridgeU: review
- MaiaLearning: review
Books
- Review: How to raise an adult
- Review: Making thinking visible
- Review: What if everything you knew about education was wrong?
- My reads by year
- Through the threshold library
Resources
- Biology reading list
- Teaching #tags
- Listening list
- A list of good open questions to use in teaching
- New DP Biology website launched
- EAL Resources
- Teaching genetic databases
- TOK Logical Fallacies
- Edtech tip: screencasting
- Edtech tip: online sketchpad
- Edtech tip: trimming video in quicktime
- Edtech tip: downloading film with clipgrab
- Edtech tip: Using preview to merge and edit pdfs
General
- Out with the old in with the new
- The evolving role of the Diploma Programme Coordinator
- Supporting the IBDP curriculum
- Delivering the core of the IBDP
- Taking your Diploma Programme to the next level