Reflects

I began writing this weblog when I started motherhood acquire out 7 months ago. Now that my motherhood acquire out is coming to an end, I'm inwards a reflective mood. I fully intend to proceed writing it i time I provide to operate because writing a weblog - along amongst joining Twitter - has been the best affair I've always done for developing my teaching.

I've learnt to a greater extent than inwards the in conclusion 7 months than I did inwards the previous v years. I've learnt that other teachers are total of amazing ideas. I've learnt how of import it is hear to those ideas too to portion them amongst others. I've formed opinions on what plant good inwards the classroom too what doesn't. I've decided where my priorities lie. I've been inspired past times the passion too dedication of others. I've learnt lots of novel mathematics. I've also learnt close wider issues inwards education. I've learnt that it's impossible to concord amongst everyone precisely it's of import to rest positive too live supportive of my beau maths teachers. I value the advice too opinions of the Twitter community. I don't know how I survived without them.

Now I'm starting to project design lessons for the get-go fourth dimension since May, I've been looking dorsum through my posts.

Gems
Gems 13 was my most pop transportation service ever. Writing these posts takes me a goodness few hours each weekend - fourth dimension that I'll demand for marker when I kicking the bucket dorsum to work. So my v weekly gems may acquire my x monthly gems.
Posts
Ideas from Shanghai was the transportation service that made the biggest impact. I'm real proud that the ideas I featured made their agency into classrooms all over the world. Here's a pocket-size pick of the comments made:

These tweets advise that my weblog is an effective channel for sharing teaching ideas.

I was pleased that most readers understood why I chose to focus on mathematical methods instead of discussing wider issues relating to the cultural, political too structural comparisons.

And it was a goodness demonstration of the ability of Twitter for sharing ideas on a global scale.

  

Thoughts on Teaching Fractions, Introducing Algebra and Introducing Differentiation. I flora these posts especially challenging to write - precisely worthwhile. For event I project design to totally alter the agency I innovate calculus to my Year 12s afterwards researching option approaches. If I didn't write a weblog I never would receive got taken the fourth dimension to retrieve close it. Other pop topic posts included Ideas for Teaching Circle Theorems, Pythagoras' Theorem and Teaching Trigonometry. I welcome requests for time to come posts.

I've written 74 weblog posts thus far, thus yous mightiness live wondering where to start if you're novel to reading my blog. If you're planning lessons too then I advise yous role the search component division or the Practical Tips for (Newly) Qualified Teachers which has loads of ideas that mightiness brand your life easier. If yous instruct H5N1 grade too then yous mightiness desire to read Bridging the Gap to H5N1 Level which, cheers to Andrew Old, featured inwards the Academies Week column Top Blogs of the Week.

My post Why Teach?, which gives an insight into why I became teacher, was also popular. 

It was my post Long Live Stem too Leaf that get-go got my weblog to a greater extent than or less attention. In this post I argued against Cav's sentiment that Stem too Leaf Diagrams were a welcome removal from the curriculum. This was the get-go fourth dimension I was brave plenty to assert an opinion! Since too then I've acquire a to a greater extent than confident blogger.

#PREThomeworks

In August, Kathryn Forster tweeted to a greater extent than or less photos of her novel homework template:

I thought this was a genuinely goodness homework format - it would sure enough operate good amongst my students - thus I asked Kathryn if I could characteristic her template inwards my adjacent gems transportation service (Gems 3). There was a non bad answer to this post, thus Kathryn too I started working on edifice upward a large collection of these homeworks. I gave them a get upward - 'Pret homeworks' - too nosotros asked for contributions through Twitter. I ready a page on resourceaholic.com to portion contributions. This rapidly became the busiest page on my website. I felt that these pop homeworks deserved their ain dedicated site thus I moved them to prethomework.weebly.com in October. We immediately receive got 69 homeworks (the collection grows every week) from 27 contributors. The format has been adopted past times Science too English linguistic communication too. Again, this demonstrates the ability of Twitter every bit a collaboration tool.

Sphere Pret homework by @_rhi_rhi

Resource Libraries
My resource libraries are total of recommendations. The Number page has been the most popular, closely followed by Algebra and Shape.  Interestingly, the Data resources are barely used inwards comparison. When I kicking the bucket dorsum to operate I retrieve my Core AS and Statistics AS pages are going to live genuinely helpful because it's difficult to detect goodness Post-16 resources.

Misconceptions
I'm working on another project, a misconceptions website. You're welcome to receive got a hold off at it too give me to a greater extent than or less feedback, precisely acquit inwards heed that it's very early on days. I demand to give it its ain URL too I receive got loads to a greater extent than materials to add. But if yous receive got a quick look, you'll acquire an thought of what I receive got inwards mind. I promise it volition live a useful tool, especially for novel teachers. I retrieve I mightiness demand a twain of volunteers to add together posts i time it's upward too running thus delight allow me know if you're interested inwards helping.

Still addicted?
I'm even thus real much addicted to searching the cyberspace for maths resources too immediately I tin forcefulness out add together blogging to my listing of addictions... has acquire blogaholic! It's been a non bad 7 months. I mightiness receive got to cutting downward soon, precisely at to the lowest degree i time I'm dorsum at schoolhouse I'll genuinely acquire to endeavor things out earlier I recommend them. I can't write a goodness weblog close maths teaching if I'm non genuinely teaching whatever maths.

Please vote for me!
If you're a regular reader of my weblog too then you'll know that lately I've been asking people to vote for me inwards the 2015 Great Britain Blog Awards. The listing of entrants inwards the individual/freelance instruction category is immense too many of the other entrants receive got tens of thousands of followers. Only i inwards v of the blogs inwards my category volition acquire through to the final. If yous could spare a infinitesimal that would live fantastic - delight click hither to vote. Voting closes on third Dec 2014.

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