The sixth #blogsync provided an opportunity for teachers of all walks to demonstrate genuine exemplars of their practice. Charged with the task of outlining their greatest explanation and powered entirely by the word-of-mouth serendipity of twitter, educational bloggers from many parts of the sector collaborated on sharing their experience and offered An example of a great classroom explanation.
To follow is the archive of the blogs and twitter links to their writers. A full description of the mechanics behind #blogsync and the form you can use to sign up can be found here
- The piece that inspired this months blogsync: Alex Quigley: Explanations: Top Ten Teaching Tips
- John Tomsett: This much I know about…a great classroom explanation of genre theory
- @Gwenelope: It ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you do it
- Chris Waugh: A very old-fashioned explanation
- Jude Enright: We don’t just talk, we listen as well
- Debbie and Mel @TeacherTweaks: Science: The Art of Explanation
- Gordon Baillie: Baby Bird: Of Mice and Men and Empathy
- Cav: A simile made from bonding, ionic and covalent and human relationships
- Francesca: Explaining Myself – a personal account of explaining cancer to students
- David Didau: The Teaching Cycle, Stage One: Explaining
- Laura McInerney: My Best Classroom Explanations (otherwise titled, “What is an explanation?”)
- Chris Curtis: Pinging the Elastic Band of Tension
- @Cherrylkd: Lord of the Flies for SEN (and the unfortunate mutilation of a doll by a teacher)
- Andy Knill: One Explanation to Rule them All: SOLO
