Highlights from the online survey (so far)
Every adult who answered the survey believed that their own knowledge of English, Maths (some Science) had increased since beginning their Home Education journey
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Home Education & Unheard Voices
The complexities of researching Home Education and finding participants
Home Education Voices: A Family Narrative of How Education is Valued and If/Where Education Capital is Transferred.
Opportunity to participate in some unique and timely Home Education Research.
Using Turnitin as a Positive Tool for Formative Assessment
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Aims and rationale: The use of Turnitin as a tool within Higher Education has been growing for many years. Alongside this, however, a culture of fear has been growing amongst students that they will somehow be caught out by the software and vilified as a cheat. This case…
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Using Turnitin as a Positive Tool for Formative Assessment
Aims and rationale: The use of Turnitin as a tool within Higher Education has been growing for many years. Alongside this, however, a culture of fear has been growing amongst students that they will somehow be caught out by the software and vilified as a cheat. This case study aims to challenge that culture andContinue reading “Using Turnitin as a Positive Tool for Formative Assessment”
The Professional Puzzle Pieces
According to the Oxford Language Dictionary, the word professional means, a person engaged or qualified in a profession. The Cambridge Online Dictionary defines professional as meaning, relating to work that needs specialist training and having the type of job that is respected because it involves a high level of education and training. What does professional mean to you? The reason I am investigating the meaning of professional isContinue reading “The Professional Puzzle Pieces”
“Don’t be afraid to be controversial”
It never occurred to me that my 20 year career would stand as the evidence of my children receiving “efficient, suitable education”
2020: the year we took back our children’s education
What I recall of 2020? That was the year the Government destroyed the faith and hope of a generation
13 and in Lockdown
The Teenager Living with Covid-19 Living in lockdown as a home-schooled 13yr old. “Lockdown, a word that, just last year, had a very different meaning. Now, when people hear the word ‘lockdown’ they think of social distancing, they think of the vulnerable who are shielding, and they think of the global pandemic. For me, lockdownContinue reading “13 and in Lockdown”
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