All Evidence-based teaching articles
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How to choose the best multimedia resources for your teaching
Tops tips to help you select videos that reduce cognitive load and boost learning
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3 ways to provide effective feedback
Use these principles to ensure your feedback is timely and helps your students succeed
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Drawing to embed complex chemical concepts
Discover how drawing diagrams can help boost student understanding
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Is every substance a molecule?
Use this to help chemistry students accurately apply covalent bonding models
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Boost scientific inquiry skills with strategies for reading and reflection
Tips to help students effectively design experiments and form researchable questions
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Ensure chemistry students get the most out of practical work
Top tips from research to improve understanding and collaboration in practicals
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Improve students’ scientific literacy through inquiry
Tips to develop students’ experimental design skills without the need for practical chemistry
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Support students to make sense of models
How your subject knowledge and teaching knowledge combine to transform students’ understanding
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How to apply pedagogical knowledge effectively
Develop your PCK to help students grasp and apply subject knowledge
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Same molecule, different representations
Chemistry is full of varied representations. How do we help our students identify the information encoded within them?
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Do our students suffer from chemophobia?
How your teaching can equip students to recognise and ward off misinformation
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How to bring your CPD from books to the classroom
Four easy steps to develop your teaching through books and articles
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What affects students’ self-assessment skills?
A study investigating students’ self-assessed understanding has implications for your practice
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5 tips for teaching VSEPR theory
Use the latest research to help your students form correct mental images when predicting molecular geometries
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Resource
Cemeg yn y Cwricwlwm i Gymru – cynllunio cefnogaeth
Canllawiau, gan gynnwys templed sgiliau ac enghraifft gwaith, i gefnogi athrawon gyda threfnu’r cwricwlwm a chynnydd ym Maes Dysgu ac Arbenigedd Gwyddoniaeth a Thechnoleg y Cwricwlwm i Gymru, cam cynnydd 4.
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Chemistry in Curriculum for Wales – planning support
Guidance, including a skills template and worked example, to support teachers with curriculum planning and progression within the Science and Technology Area of Learning and Expertise from Curriculum for Wales, progression step 4.
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Using student-generated animations to assess conceptions
Harness the power of PowerPoint when teaching molecular motion to identify misconceptions and help students better understand the sub-microscopic world
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Researchers find metacognition aids sub-microscopic understanding
Get research-based tips for improving your students’ sub-microscopic understanding of particle models
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5 tips for approaching formative assessment
Use these research-informed teaching tips to better uncover your classes’ core chemical thinking
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Interview
‘Structure and bonding really gets to the heart of chemistry’
Meet Niki Kaiser, a chemistry teacher inspiring others to embrace evidence-based teaching practices