wonderful One Note

Finally set up my new scheme of work on One Note, and the other teacher can edit, while inspectors etc. can see it and not edit it.

I'm much preferring it to the old spreadsheet system.  There's an overview page with hyperlinks which means if we change the teaching order I only have to change the overview page.
Each section of the syllabus has it's own page with learning activities, assessment and differentiation.  I'm using the tag system to identify TOK, independent learning and collaborative learning, and can add more tags if I need to.

My head of department has said it's good, and I might show it at the staff development session I'm running on Wednesday.

Next job fill in all of the topics!

Making progress

Now is a good time to think of next years teaching.  The second years have started their exams, so there is more free time, and invigilation is a good time to think about things (as that's all there is to do!)

Next week I'm talking about my masters experience during staff development and that's been a good opportunity to review what I learnt and to think about how to apply it further,  Next year I will be keen to set up a research group amongst the teachers, and I hope I can get some interest going.

The organisation part of the mastery is going well, the central bank is working well, the order of teaching is complete, and I'm meeting with he head of maths to try and coordinate topics.

I took my students to the local museum to teach classification for the first time.  It worked really well, although a bit like herding cats. The students were so excited about all the animals they were reluctant to learn about plant phyla, but we managed.  I need to remember that the bureaucracy involved in organising a trip is worth it for the learning experience.