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From Teacher to Leader: rED 2025!

Another great conference! Find the slides linked below from my session, ‘From Teacher to Leader’ from the 2025 researchEd National Conference. I’ve been passionate about and fascinated by the field of leadership since I was a teenager. Studying GCSE Business gave me the most gentle of introductions into the field (a quick look at autocratic, democratic and laissez-faire styles), and yet even what I learned then has stayed with me.  Years later (after pursuing Economics at A level, and going on to study International Business at degree level), I was perplexed by some of the leadership behaviours I was exposed to in schools. Why were these senior people using styles that most Year 11 Business students would call out as ‘not appropriate for the context’ if presented to them in a case study.  Not everyone studied GCSE Business did they though, never mind higher level qualifications in the field. In fact many, many school leaders had received no leadership education whatsoever. Goo...
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Lock in!

Preparing for exams? Download my revision planner template to help schedule revision, practice and exams! 🔒Use the template in Canva to create personalised timetables for Feb-June. 🔒Monthly advice on what kind of work to do in study sessions.  🔒‘Lock in’ for Summer 2025 now!! 😁 Find it here: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1849464738/revision-planner-canva-
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Perfect your revision…

 Perfect your revision… …of perfect competition with this handy one page summary!  Download free here ! Retrieval / fill the gaps blank version here - use as worksheet, or for self-testing to improve memory! Canva Template Link: Edit the sheet to add your school logo, space for student name or score, colour, or whatever you like!  https://www.canva.com/design/DAGcmQJYp4Q/bGs-9zPq3-gf6RVQsP7qJg/view?utm_content=DAGcmQJYp4Q&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=publishsharelink&mode=preview Check out how to draw all the key diagrams for perfect competition on You Tube here !  For more coverage of Perfect Competition, check out my book on the topic. Available on Amazon, free to Kindle Unlimited subscribers!  https://amzn.eu/d/cJLGakE
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Become a JonesLearn Scholar…

Master A Level Economics with JonesLearn by becoming a JonesLearn Scholar.  Develop your skills and knowledge to the highest level, and achieve the grade you deserve. With over 20 years experience teaching economics, Sarah makes use of her extensive experience as teacher, Head of Department, examiner and tutor to provide high quality one-to-one and small group tuition. Her deep understanding of cognitive science, as well as the content of A Level Economics specifications and assessment methods, mean she is able to offer students clear explanations and highly effective methods to enable them to remember and use their knowledge over time.  - Improve understanding of all required topics. - Develop skills of application, analysis and evaluation to ensure top marks in examinations. - Learn techniques for answering multiple choice and calculation questions accurately. - Receive feedback on written work to find out how to improve. - Learn how to memorise all key knowledge using evide...
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Curriculum Conversations: A Visual Approach

 Curriculum Conversations: A Visual Approach Thoroughly grateful, as ever, to had have the opportunity to share some of my reading, my thinking and my work at the researchEd National Conference in London earlier this month!  Thanks so much if you came along!  I have been interested in visual (and other) approaches to solving problems since studying a module on group decision making in my degree, back in the early 2000’s! The knowledge and skills I developed at that time had laid somewhat dormant over the years that followed, but since I have more recently encountered further ideas and writing on dual coding, visual techniques and graphic organisation, I have begun to fuse together my interest and experience from the field of management with my improved understanding of the importance of visuals in communication and processing.  Discovery of this very recent article from Csaszar, Hinrichs and Heshmati (2024) was very pleasing to me. They draw together findings from pr...
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Classifying & Addressing Misconceptions

Are there different types of misconception? Does thinking about this help us to better identify them, prevent them and address them?  I am suggesting here that misconceptions may be classified into two types: - pre-existing misconceptions - instructional phase misconceptions (or ‘miscompletions’) If the student simply does not know something, this shall not be considered a misconception, but rather an ‘incompletion’. They have a gap, and it isn’t filled with something wrong, it’s just empty!  This post is in response to a blog named ‘Misconception?’ from Ben Newmark, you can read it here ! Thanks, Ben!
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What is ChatGPT? And what do educators need to know about it?

After registering on the ChatGPT website you are taken to a browser page. You can type in any question you like, and you will be provided with an answer. That’s what ChatGPT offers. It is a ‘chatbot’ and it is currently operating in a free ‘research phrase’ to collect feedback from users.   Great, isn’t that what Google does? ChatGPT is not a search engine - it is text only and it won’t pull information from elsewhere on the internet. It will give you answers using only the large body of content which it has been fed, so it does not know ‘everything’ and cannot address questions about current or future events. It does converse in a more ‘human’ manner than Google though, it’s maybe best thought of as a quiet, somewhat bookish, Alexa.  Why should I care? Home Study The content provided by ChatGPT appears to be of a much higher quality and far more specific than students could typically obtain from the internet via search engines. Users can obtain everything from c...
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