Concept based teaching and learning - Louie Barnett

Applying Rosenshine's Principles of Instruction to Online Classrooms

Written by louiebarnett on March 18, 2020

Choosing your online classroom

Written by louiebarnett on March 18, 2020

Why does sodium chloride dissolve?

Written by louiebarnett on October 30, 2019

Using a Chemistry Glossary

By louiebarnett on October 23, 2019

In this short post, I will briefly discuss how I use a glossary of chemistry terms to support student learning. You can find the glossary here. Feel free to make a copy and use as you see fit (please note that it is a live document and so is constantly updated as I teach!). Why […]

How to quickly make retrieval practice tasks...

By louiebarnett on February 17, 2019

Research suggests that fill in the blank questions are more effective at helping students encode knowledge into long term memory than multiple choice quizzes. This is because they have to actively retrieve knowledge from their memory in order to answer them, rather than just select that correct answer. This blog post gives a quick and […]

Effective Learning and Revision Strategies

By louiebarnett on February 14, 2019

This post is designed to give parents and students a really brief insight into some practical strategies that might improve learning and make time spent on it more effective. It is split into two parts. Part 1 looks at a how you might get started with revision and what the cycle of revision certain content […]

Using Google Quizzes for Retrieval Practice

By louiebarnett on January 7, 2019

I’m finding the quiz function in Google Forms is awesome. If you don’t know what I’m talking about or how to get to this, check out this video! I use this primarily for retrieval practice and quick formative assessment. Here are some of the top benefits I find when using the quiz function in google […]

Using the group 1 metals demonstration more intentionally

By louiebarnett on September 21, 2018

Throughout my teaching career, I have often found myself doing demonstrations because they are in the unit plan. I have, at times, not really used them with great intentionality. One of my goals this year is to be much more intentional with the demonstrations I use. This includes thinking carefully about the conceptual understanding I […]

Developing better internal schema in chemistry students

By louiebarnett on June 14, 2018

Pre-warning. This is a bit of a long read and gets a bit heavy. If you want to skip to the final summary, scroll down! Disclaimer: A lot of this article is based on the work of Talanquer (2015). Barely any of it is my own so please do take a look at his article […]

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