New Zealand educator · Secondary Biology teacher
Charles Wardle
Biology teaching, reflective practice and classroom resources.
I am a New Zealand educator and secondary Biology teacher. I use this site to share original classroom resources and notes on assessment, scientific explanation, feedback and reflective learning.
Working cycle
- 01Notice a real difficulty
- 02Make the thinking visible
- 03Test it in practice
- 04Refine what is useful
Selected work
Useful material, with the thinking behind it.
How I work
Start with a real problem. Make the thinking visible.
The resources here begin with specific difficulties I have seen in Biology lessons: a student knows the science but misreads the question, an explanation lists facts without linking cause and effect, or feedback is received but not used.
How I develop the materialFrom the classroom
Articles on Biology teaching
Free Biology resource
A six-step question-decoding routine
A print-friendly prompt that helps students read, decode, rephrase, predict, respond and check before they submit an answer.