This time last year I was on a spectacular St Patrick's Day bender, I mean quality audit, in Manhattan with the out going DGUSA Exec team. This year I didn't even manage a pint.
Terrific observation today with Year 8. I am being observed by the same teacher across the same lesson each week so the trick here is to show progress by addressing the targets she set me last week. Today we did a Tarsia puzzle that is in the form of dominoes - they have to match the unsimplified algebraic expression to the simplified one. They did it brilliantly and make me look like a genius.
These Tarsia puzzles are brilliant. You download some software that loads up a range of templates for matching anything. You input the content and the software mixes it all up and churns out a printable output that the kids cut up, match and then make posters to put up on the wall. These can last a whole lesson or just 10 mins at the beginning or end.
