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    Subject Knowledge: Great books for biology teachers

    04.06.202312.04.2026

    Reading great books is the only one short cut to improving subject knowledge. Here, I compile a selection that have helped me develop as a teacher and are accessibly-written. It isn’t a complete list of…

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    Case studies I’ve made (for 16–18): Indicator species & life strategies

    09.11.202212.04.2026

    After coming across two interesting journal papers I thought they would make excellent case studies for my students. Let me introduce, and share, them with you. The first case study deals with indicator species and…

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    How should we teach the cause of osmosis?

    13.10.202212.04.2026

    What is the cause of osmosis? Typically, with my students of 14-16 years old (GCSE courses), I don’t delve into the mechanism. It’s the pattern that matters most at this stage. But as students progress…

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    A model for teacher sustainability and growth

    11.09.202212.04.2026

    What are the most important factors for teacher sustainability? I’m sure there are many: behaviour, planning time, teaching hours, pay, etc. I’ll look at just two factors that, together, provide a rough rule for deciding…

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    Retrieval practice during lessons: the ups & downs of my experience

    12.08.202212.04.2026

    For years, I toiled with quiz questions in my biology courses (AKA core questions). I used quiz questions as starter quizzes, to summarise key points of an explanation, as homework, and for cover work. It…

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    How excessive use of the respiration equation can cause problems

    12.02.202112.04.2026

    Cell respiration and its relationship to photosynthesis is one of the fundamental ideas of biology. Its ubiquitous presence in the secondary curriculum is well deserved, but do these equations cause additional problems for a more…

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    The problems with Mendelian genetics in biology education

    06.02.202012.04.2026

    Mendelian genetics is ubiquitous in secondary school biology curricula, and the Punnet square is iconic to genetics. Think about the common examples of traits that you have seen in biology curricula to show Mendelian genetics….

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    The hows & whys: Classroom questions that get students explaining biology

    08.01.202012.04.2026

    Explanation in biology is said to be split between two big questions: the how and the why. So what do these mean? The idea started with Ernst Mayr. In the 1960s Mayr published his ideas…

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