Form 4 Aces the Exam!

Sadly there were fewer frogs and more lattice enthalpies in my day today. At least the lattice enthalpies were done in air conditioning.

In geography with year 11 I have set up a cheeky little debate for tomorrow’s lesson. It made me think back to a debate I set up in London that miserably failed and turned into a full-blown, screaming argument spanning the whole lunch time after the lesson. I’ll have to wait to see how excited/angry Guyanese kids get about underpopulation in Australia.

The anxiety of teaching the A-Levels needn’t have been there but I still felt a wave of relief and confidence sweep over me as I realised I had completed a full A-level lesson on lattice enthalpies. The lovely part is that these lessons aren’t limited resource-style. The sixth form classrooms have air conditioning, white boards and you can borrow top-spec projectors to let Khan Academy (Youtube tutorials) take over for a bit. I reflected on the lesson (yes, I did do Teach First) and realised that smashing out the content then letting the students take over to give each other example questions was really effective.

Bit of resource irony

I have planned for the students to teach the start of a lesson each. I actually taught them why that is a good idea and they looked kind of excited by it. I know; you all think I should be an education lecturer.

Grade 10 (my tutor group) stormed their end of unit test. I wrote the test up on the board just like we used to do in Region One; who needs a photocopier? 13 As and A*s out of 24 kids. This took me ages to get to with classes in London. Sadly they were more happy to get stars on the star chart than their A*s but then again, we are going on a tour of the President’s house when we get 150. I only hope I can repeat this with the A-levels.

 I stayed at school until 6 to plan for tomorrow. I never thought I would feel confident about teaching Born-Haber cycles to A-level but let’s see how it goes down tomorrow.

P.s jaguars acutally eat crocodiles