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news for teachers
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Doing classroom observation last week (of which more later), I noticed that Year 11s fall into three groups: those who have have effective revision plans those who are revising, but are not doing so effectively those who are still in denial As it happens, my colleage Mike has been working on a resource aimed precisely…
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Yacapaca passed the 2500 registered teachers mark mid-last week – in fact as I write we have 2681 teacher members. A quick sample of the data suggests that approx 75% are from UK secondary school, and that each school has an average of 1.5 teachers registered. That would indicate that 1340 UK Secondary Schools now…
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It wasn’t that long ago that we would celebrate in the Chalkface office if a real teacher had been on Yacapaca that day. It felt hugely validating that someone had wanted to use our litte system to run some tests with a class of perhaps 30 students. Recently it’s been a bit busier. A good…
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When we first introduced the Avatar template in Yacapaca, we only had one avatar, Bobo. Since then, he’s been joined by 14 friends – some human, some not, some … indeterminate. Bobo, having a head start, was the most popular – until yesterday. Now we have a new number one! It can be exclusively revealed…
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Last January I was waxing eloquent about BETT, the education technology show. We’d run a well-attended stand, heard some very nice things about ourselves and our products, and were all feeling pretty chuffed with ourselves. Looking back, I’m not so pleased. Running even a small stand costs £5000 if you include staff and preparation costs.…
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