Learning is an active process. Too often, I encounter students who believe they can simply sit, passively in a lesson and absorb what is being taught, without having to do anything. And to a degree…| MBDscience
I’ve changed my mind. I used to categorise my student of three groups – Ps, Cs and neither. My Ps, these are my prerequisite students. They are the ones I am going to first. They constitute approximately one third of the class. These are the students who, if they don’t have the prerequisite knowledge, I […]| MBDscience
“A lot of the same students were putting their hand up. Try cold calling or turn and talk.” Giving feedback is a vital part of leading, but – as with many parts of leadership R…| MBDscience
A short, tiredness-fuelled rant. I love science. I find chemistry so logically fascinating that I could do mole calculations for hours in the same way some people do those adult colouring books. My…| MBDscience
As a profession – perhaps driven by parents – we are increasingly concerned with the anxiety levels of our students. I have lost count of the number of times I have been told not to col…| MBDscience
Picture the scene. You’ve been teaching your year 9 class for three weeks, you’ve got to the end of a unit and have now completed the end of unit assessment*. Unfortunately, some of the students have done appallingly. What happens now? There are two possible scenarios at play here – either (1) you were blindsided […]| MBDscience
I realise I haven’t written about classroom practice in a while. I apologise, but alas, the drought continues. Disposable vapes will be banned in the UK as part of ambitious government plans …| MBDscience
Our service this morning (this afternoon, by the time we finished) we closed, as usual, with Adon Olam, a liturgical poem that ends with the line: לי ולא אירא [G-d] is with me, and I am not afraid …| MBDscience
I wrote this piece for my shul magazine. Photo by Ben Allan on Unsplash Today, at the ripe age of 31, I messaged an adult that I am not related to, to ask their permission to get a pet. I’m not ins…| MBDscience
I wrote the following piece for my shul magazine. Enjoy? With all the talk of how it will revolutionise just about anything, if there’s one thing that could benefit from some humility, it wou…| MBDscience
