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 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

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...

 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...

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!

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...

Some subjects appear to be awash with books on how to teach them and writing on what constitutes a ‘good’ curriculum in terms of that subject. Wise subject leaders who are engaged in curriculum design would of course do well to read such material to help aid their thinking, as would senior leaders who are responsible for quality assurance.   But what if little or nothing appears to have been written about the teaching of or curriculum thinking in relation to a particular subject? Where does a subject leader go for inspiration? How do they know if their curriculum is any ‘good’ or how it could be improved? How might senior leaders attempt to quality assure that curriculum?  The answer is that the curriculum thinking must be done from scratch. Before any work can be started the parties involved need first to educate themselves in the underlying principles and concepts of curriculum theory. These generic principles then need to be tentatively applied to the subject. There is n...