I work as a Head of Philosophy, Religion and Ethics in one of the country's highest achieving state schools.
I am passionate about ensuring that my subject is engaging, relevant and academically rigorous.
I devote time imagining, creating, differentiating and tailoring my resources so that the students benefit from quality teaching materials and I hope that they are of real benefit to your own practice.
I work as a Head of Philosophy, Religion and Ethics in one of the country's highest achieving state schools.
I am passionate about ensuring that my subject is engaging, relevant and academically rigorous.
I devote time imagining, creating, differentiating and tailoring my resources so that the students benefit from quality teaching materials and I hope that they are of real benefit to your own practice.
This display pack is designed to engage students in reflecting on their thinking and argument. The pack includes two displays:
Logical fallacies covering a range of 21 examples of irrationality including:
Strawman, slippery slope, ad hominum, black or white, appeal to authority, bandwagon, middle ground, begging the question, non-representative sample, moral equivalency, non sequitur, red herring, splitting hairs, non-testable hypothesis, anecdotal support, genetic, post hoc ergo propter hoc, appeal to tradition, appeal to emotion, affirming the consequent and denying the antecedent.
Cognitive biases covering a range of 18 reasons why we all fail to be objective including:
Anchoring, confirmation bias, declinism, framing, fundamental attribution error, the halo effect, backfire effect, reactance, groupthink, belief bias, availability heuristic, clustering illusion, conservatism bias, blind spot bias, the ostrich effect, zero risk, in-group bias and the Dunning-Kruger effect.
All of the displays are styled in a high contrast white on black or black on white (apart from the red herring of course…) They are eye-catching and informative for your students of all ages from Year 7 through to Year 13. Great for an RE, Philosophy or Psychology classroom. Maybe these should be in every classroom - just think about the world we could create!
Instructions: Just cut around the shape leaving a small border of white. You could create a board for each or put both together! I’ve uploaded a model of how they look in my classroom.
A new bundle combining the best-selling ‘Complete RE/Philosophy Display Pack’ that’s now sold over 800 copies and my new high-quality ‘Logical Fallacies and Cognitive Biases’ displays to root out any irrationality in your classroom.
Between them there is plenty to cover any classroom’s wallspace:
The awesome Philosophers Timeline with 68 thinkers and pop-out quotes for each
Bloomin’ good questions display
RE skills/levels wall-chart
Blooms questioning chart
Classroom opinion line
Philosophical Language display
21 Common logical fallacies display
18 Cognitive biases we’re all guilty of
Make your classroom a joy to look at!
Markbook Extra is an incredibly powerful yet wonderfully simple automated electronic markbook.
How does it work?
In brief, you enter the student’s raw marks for any assessment and the markbook uses sophisticated analysis to present you with all the data you’d want to see on an individual student or whole classes.
Highlights of v5:
Overhauled from the ground up to improve on almost every aspect of the original ‘markbook ultra’.
Store all of your classes (KS3-5) in one simple Excel workbook.
Suitable for any subject area regardless of how or what you assess. Show or hide up to five different assessment objective columns for each assessment.
Supports GCSE (9-1 or A*-G), A Level and Pre-U. Goodbye to using different workbooks for different types of grades!
Supports Foundation, Intermediate and Higher tier students in the same class and will limit grades accordingly.
Supports more than just male and female gender identity.
Set your own regularly used grade boundaries in eight quick presets or choose them individually for each assessment.
Powerful ‘at a glance’ and on the go analysis of individual student progress, each assessment or classes as a whole.
One-click export for headline data for all KS4 and KS5 classes for use by colleagues or line managers.
Live analysis of Gender gaps, SEND gap, and PP gap.
One click button to print a summary sheet for any student or the whole class at once. This gives a breakdown of all assessments and their marks. Shows progress against targets. Great for handing out and discussing at parents’ evening.
Filter by assessment type to offer even more powerful analysis of class strengths and areas for improvement.
KS3 markbooks support custom levels/grades or RAG rated strand systems.
Sample class included which is packed with helpful tips on how to use the markbook.
All Macros work on PC and Mac. This is truly universal and made for everyone!
If you have any questions prior to purchase please do get in touch: markbookultra@gmail.com
Custom-made versions of Markbook Extra are available. Have your school branding added and modifications made where necessary. Email me directly for a quotation.