A couple of years of the Class Read: what I've learned
[Admission: I actually wrote this a year ago and never got around to posting it.] A few years ago I wrote about an experiment I was just starting: getting a whole class to read the same non-fiction book together, a "Class Read". You can find that original post here, and it lays out where I started and why. I'm pleased to say the experiment stuck. This is also one of my Classroom Systems; you can take a look at the others here. I've packaged up everything, all the resources th
World Cup Application Project
Overview The World Cup Application Project is designed to help students develop their macroeconomic application and judgement skills. Although the project uses the structure of the World Cup, the focus is not on football (I have a blog post coming out with Economics of the World Cup links soon for that!) Students use the countries in World Cup groups as case studies for researching economic conditions and applying macroeconomic policy decisions. The project has two main stage
Cobbled together Financial Markets Paper 3 Investigation Practice (AQA)
This has more extracts in it than a normal paper 3 and two of each type of question, so it's less suitable for strict time practise but better for general technique practise. The combination of: no choice in the AQA paper 3 (after students are typically used to hedging their revision based on the notion they do get a choice in P1 and P2 a topic that typically students under revise a topic which has pretty good synoptic links all means I always want to make sure students have