As part of my teaching training course at The OAKS, Keele University (link), I often have to write a set of reflections based upon my experiences in different situations. One set of reflections was from my time at a Pupil Referral Unit (PRU). PRU accommodates students who have been excluded or are at risk of exclusion …
Month: April 2018
ChemEdCarnival – 2
Last month, Dr Katherine Haxton re-introduced the concept of the blog carnival (link), where the host thinks of a topic, bloggers write about it and then on carnival day, the host publishes a blogpost with links to all the posts. This month, the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Chemical Education Research Group (CERG) are hosting …
Subject Identity in the Sciences
This is the third instalment of a highly edited version of a submitted article that I wrote for my Postgraduate Certificate in Education course at Keele University. The post will look at the identity of the sciences as a subject as a whole, focussing on specifically on chemical education, along with its pedagogy. The teaching of …