Thanks to the Isaac Physics Teachers’ WhatsApp Group, which has 260 of the country’s physics teachers in it, I’ve seen beautiful pictures from all over the UK.
Category Archives: Teaching and learning
Physics exam tips
Physics exam tips. See my latest blog post!
Do you find these derivation videos helpful?
Do you find my derivation videos helpful? Please let me know what you think?
Five revision tips for Physics
Physics is a subject where students can always improve if they practice routinely. In this post I give some tips on how to revise Physics effectively.
On the arrogance of physicists
Physics teachers can look like people whose whole raison d’etre is to catch young people out and proclaim, “ah ha, you were wrong!” In a way, that is precisely what we do.
The five best things about being a physics teacher
Why do I look forward to Monday mornings?
Every action has… no, I cannot finish that
Newton’s Third Law. Need I say more? Well, in this weblog post, I say a lot more.
How many stars in the solar system?
How many stars in the solar system? In this post I explain why mistakes are necessary for learning
A Level revision timetable!
I’ve written a spreadsheet that creates a revision timetable automatically – just plug in the topics and off you go. It includes interleaving and repetition to promote long term retrieval. Here’s a screenshot (the colours are for broad topics): This is available to enrolled A Level tutees, and there’s a GCSE version available to enrolledContinueContinue reading “A Level revision timetable!”
