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Mindful colouring to support student wellbeing

Mindful colouring to support student wellbeing

Sharpen your pencils and your mind! Mindfulness is something we’ve heard a lot about during the last few years. It’s all about focusing attention on your current activity (Brown & Ryan, 2003) and is shown to be positively related to psychological health and emotional well-being (Keng, Smoski, & Robins, 2011)

Save time on marking Stile X

Save time on marking Stile X

It may be tempting to collect Stile X booklets and closely mark each page, providing feedback on every question. Not only is this time-consuming, it’s also unnecessary. Stile X is most effective when students use it as their tool for learning. By completing the revision notes, glossary and practice

Variety is the spice of classroom life!

Variety is the spice of classroom life!

Should I use Stile for every lesson? Teachers often ask “Should I use Stile for every lesson? Surely students will tire of doing the same thing in every science class!” Of course, doing the same thing in every lesson would be boring. That’s why we intentionally craft each Stile

New: Stile Teaching Plans

New: Stile Teaching Plans

As a teacher, you’ve never got time up your sleeve. There’s always something you could be doing, like planning or marking in between multiple meetings, yard duty, report writing and extracurricular activities. It’s our job to take as much off your plate as we can, so you

New and improved: Updates to assessment in Stile

New and improved: Updates to assessment in Stile

Assessment is an essential part of the teaching process. Recently, our team sat tests and check-ins across the Stile collection and reflected on how we could make them even better. This review has given us an opportunity to make a number of improvements, bringing all of our assessment tasks up

Our approach to assessment

Our approach to assessment

Assessment is a core part of what we do as teachers. It allows us to measure student progress, informs our reporting and helps us to reflect on how successful our teaching has been. To gain accurate information and keep students engaged in the process, we need assessment tasks that are

Introducing: Pop-up definitions to support literacy

Introducing: Pop-up definitions to support literacy

We want to make science more accessible to every student. To make this a reality, we've created a handy new feature: Pop-up definitions! While we start rolling this out, read on to find out more about how pop-up definitions work. For a first look at pop-up definitions, check out our

Driving Questions Boards in Stile

Driving Questions Boards in Stile

The Driving Questions Board is an instructional tool used to facilitate students' questions, organise them and connect them to their learning. You'll notice that Driving Questions Boards feature in a number of our newest units, including The Nervous System and Waves. This article is your go-to guide for using a

The 5E Instructional Model

The 5E Instructional Model

The BSCS 5E Instructional Model is a popular, evidence-based teaching framework that is applied extensively in Stile’s science program. So, what is it? Where did it come from? How can you use it in the classroom? Read on to find out.

Stile Professional Learning

Stile Professional Learning

The teacher is the most important part of the classroom. This might sound like a bold statement, but hear me out. Through your relationships with students and your professional expertise, you have a greater impact on student learning than any textbook, worksheet, or device could ever have. You bring the

Flash PL Recordings

Flash PL Recordings

Stile's Flash PL [https://stileeducation.com/professional-learning/flash-pl/] are short professional learning webinars on the latest in science education and Stile. They're designed to keep you up-to-date with key developments and enhance science teaching and learning at your school. Upcoming Flash PLs Head to our homepage [https://stileeducation.com/professional-learning/

Flash PL FAQs

Want to know more about our Flash PL series? Here are some answers to our most commonly asked questions!