Blog Review

On my blog list there are few educational blogs that I follow. @TeacherToolKit is the blog that I engaged with the most.

The Blog belongs to a deputy head teacher-Ross Morrison McGill , the blog ranked number 1 educational blog in the UK. As a result of his blog he published his book in 2013, he is a proud author of 100 ideas: Outstanding Lessons. He is the most followed teacher on Twitter in the UK!! He is responsible for improving the quality of teaching and learning.

The blog itself basically does what it says provides teachers the right tools for teaching and learning.

The blog reveals very useful strategies for teachers like the '5 Minute Lesson Plan' which is there to advise teachers to reduce planning time for lessons and to focus more on key learning phases within the lesson.  'Stickability' is a term used a lot to aid learning. It is there to guide teachers and for them to ask -what sticks in students minds in your lessons?

The blog is designed to help teaching and learning. There are many PDF , Word,documents available for teachers to use and engage with to spark new ideas for their lessons. The '5 Minute Lesson Plan' comes under many languages so this is useful for schools all around the world.

There are links on his blog to interactive learning games for students to engage with.  I have enjoyed playing some of these interactive games like the puzzles and quizzes. There are many resources for students and teachers on this Blog. There is also homework templates and marking plans for teachers to follow. As a student myself I feel like this is a useful blog to have on my blog list.

CPD is another tool used on his blog where teachers are in a room like a speed dating event. They quickly engage  and converse with each other whilst moving around the room exchanging teaching and learning ideas. I feel like this a brilliant and fun way of parting new ideas. The term Bring and Brag is used which means that teachers prepare a visual, physical or verbal idea  that can be shared for 30 seconds. This to me sounds like a better way to have a staff meeting!

The Blog provides resources ,presentations and knowledge for new learning experiences such as the interactive white board, games and so forth. There are different links to these areas of learning. There is also a chat forum for teachers to join. And anyone can follow the Blog. There is a link to 'teachmeets' where dates on teachers national events are posted. On this blog there is links to  educational youtube videos, images and also teachers selfies!!

I feel like this blog is a great educational resource with great ideas for teaching and learning.  I will definitely come to this blog for some top tips for revision and learning. I feel like I can take away the 5 minute plan with me when I am now preparing for a presentation in university and  I can use this to my advantage.
The Blog is very modern with it's links to twitter and Facebook and many other social networking sites. This makes it appealing to myself and other students and I can follow and share ideas from this Blog to my Facebook page.