Victoria Hewett
Form Time Ideas – Acts of Kindness
At the beginning of December I shared a guest post on Amjad Ali’s Teaching Toolkit. Over the last 3 weeks I loved seeing the variety of...
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Victoria Hewett
Dec 18, 20153 min
Developing Independent Learners
As previously mentioned developing independent learners in my subject area is a key focus of mine this year. So far with year 7 and 8...
Victoria Hewett
Oct 30, 20154 min
A different approach to Schemes of Work
Recently I’ve been thinking about whether Schemes of Work are the death of spontaneous learning opportunities. As a Geographer...
Victoria Hewett
Sep 10, 20152 min
Reflection – PGCE Resources
This evening I found my USB stick from my PGCE year. The array of resources on there, well… they were interesting to view. I can see such...
Victoria Hewett
Sep 9, 20152 min
Classroom Ideas – River in a Bottle
I came up with the idea during my NQT a few years ago and have been using it every year since. The visibiilty of the processes taking...
Victoria Hewett
Aug 25, 20152 min
Developing Literacy – Key Word Keyrings
At the end of the last academic year I asked my students for feedback. They were honest and constructive. Pupils in a number of groups...
Victoria Hewett
Aug 19, 20151 min
Homework Points
Last year I trialled numerous homework approaches with KS3 from booklets to takeaway homework. It was a fair bit of trial and error. The...
Victoria Hewett
Aug 17, 20152 min
Classroom Ideas – Making GIFs
I then got thinking about other models I could make to demonstrate either features of a landform or the process of formation. Of course I...
Victoria Hewett
Jun 14, 20151 min
Resource – Directed Improvement and Reflection Time Sheets
After such a great response on twitter about my DIRT sheets, I decided to add a few more to the selection that I made available here....
Victoria Hewett
May 25, 20152 min
Directed Improvement and Reflection Time Sheets
I’ve always felt marking to be an important yet time consuming aspect of the job. Throughout my NQT year I felt that my marking went...
Victoria Hewett
May 16, 20154 min
Resource – Rainforest Role Play Game
Rather happy with the #educationalRPG I’ve created on surviving in the #rainforest. Which level of #geek am I now?...
Victoria Hewett
Apr 29, 20151 min
Are You Stressed? By @ASTSupportAAli
A great post; reflective and helpful. NewToThePost It is said that Teaching is one of the most stressful professions in the UK at the...
Victoria Hewett
Apr 8, 20152 min
Curriculum Link
Originally poster on http://staffrm.io/ Original post One thing I’ve often found in my career so far is that students struggle to see the...
Victoria Hewett
Apr 7, 20152 min
Word Walls
Originally posted on http://staffrm.io/ Original Post – Word Walls One of my classes really seem to struggle to remember and use key...
Victoria Hewett
Mar 23, 20151 min
Positive Poetry
I recently saw this short poem from one of my favourite musicians shared on facebook. Instantly I thought it were perfect for a number of...
Victoria Hewett
Mar 15, 20153 min
Resource – Farming and Diversification
They started by looking at different types of farming, then moved onto subsistence vs. commercial farming. Later they carried out a...
Victoria Hewett
Mar 14, 20152 min
Resource – UK Population Distribution
I was booked in to be observed teaching a low ability year 7 class. The topic of the lesson was UK population patterns. I’ve taught the...
Victoria Hewett
Mar 7, 20152 min
Resource – Source Analysis
Inspired by @activehistory and @russeltarr – source overlay in action in this morning’s #opendoorclassroom pic.twitter.com/cosRgdrxX5 —...
Victoria Hewett
Mar 1, 20151 min
Resource – Population Study Mat
For the next 3-4 weeks we are studying population dynamics. To speed things up a bit I’ve created this Population Study Mat. Each pupil...