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The role of Formative Assessment in our return to physical school: Opportunities to review material at the start of the lesson

There are three platforms I use to ensure that every student is taking part and to instantly collect the data you need to move on into your lesson. The best part is about using these platforms is that I know they are truly engaged in a challenging activity from the start of the lesson, leaving me free to take the register and interact with the students as they are entering the classroom.

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Winding down your Digital Ecosystems for the year- how to archive a Microsoft Team

Archiving the Team means that all the files, conversations and OneNote are kept safe for future use, without an adult having to worry about potentially missing an alert, or forgetting a scheduled Team class meeting.

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Digital Learning Environments STEM Skills Teaching and Learning

Our children don’t just ask “Why”… They show us the solutions too!

I am delighted to post this article to support the Teach Middle East’s 2021 STEM MENA conference. This article is part of my workshop, “Every Day is a Design Thinking Day and explains how the Design Thinking process can help teachers incorporate the skills that students need to succeed in their future STEM roles. After […]

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TechTuesday Top Tips- Groupwork

5 Top Tips to integrate group work into any lesson I can finally legitimately say Tech Tuesday now it is Tuesday again! So here is a little throwback that I gave my school a couple months ago. If you are not a Microsoft School, these options are transferable into any digital classroom. It is not […]

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O365 Top Tips

5 O365 Top Tips to use in any kind of classroom!

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Digital Learning Environments top tips

Teams Advanced Features

Add these 4 features to your virtual teacher toolkit for online learning.