Overview To help students exchange their research findings with each other in a particularly time-efficient way, challenge each of them to summarise their [...]

Overview The speed-dating format is designed to help students spot comparisons and contrasts between different ideas, answers or categories of information. [...]

Overview In subjects like history it is important that students form, express and substantiate their judgements on central issues. One efficient way of [...]

Overview For examination subjects, content is king. Without a secure bedrock of factual knowledge, analysis cannot be attempted and evaluation and [...]

Overview When students conduct research on key individuals, get them to write up their findings on a cardboard cube, with each of the six faces covering a [...]

I learned of this idea from Lottie in the English department at Bradford Grammar School a couple of weeks ago, where I was lucky enough to spend a couple [...]

I am trying to get into the habit of getting regular feedback from my students about what I am covering with them, and how I am doing so. For example, are [...]

When conducting group work, there is always a danger that certain students might take a bit of a back seat and let their teammates do all the work. To [...]