CENTRE for ACADEMIC LANGUAGE and DEVELOPMENT (CALD)
Hello everyone,
We’re pleased to announce the relaunch of the CALD Teaching and Learning Network blog to coincide with the CALD Individual and Centre Development Week (23-27 May 2022).
The new URL for the blog is https://caldteachingandlearningnetwork.wordpress.com/. [Update: it is now https://teachingandlearningnetwork.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/]
by Hannah Gurr
It was the first week of June, and I’d just finished what I considered to be the least enjoyable part of my job: marking a pile of end-of-course writing under exam conditions. (more…)
by Hannah Gurr and Katherine High
Tutors on our pre-sessional this year will now be familiar with Dylan Wiliam’s 2010 BBC2 documentary The Classroom Experiment. In it [from 7:21], he says:
The children who are answering everything you ask them are actually getting smarter – their IQs actually go up. And there are other children in the same classroom who are foregoing that opportunity to get smarter. So, if you are allowing children to volunteer to participate or not in your classroom, quite simply you are making the achievement gap bigger. (more…)
by Hannah Gurr
How do we know if our learners are taking in what we have taught in class? Well, one way to find out is to ask them. (more…)