Blogs for the Week Ending 11th May 2014

This is round up of the best education blogs from the last week. If you are an education blogger on WordPress, please reblog this post. I believe this week’s blogpost of the week will once again feature on the Chalk Talk Podcast (unless I’ve left it too late), so any suggestions gratefully received either in the comments below or on twitter, directed to @oldandrewuk

• Under re-construction May 11, 2014
• The Creativity of Pedagogical Sampling May 11, 2014
• Wish them luck May 11, 2014
• Common Sense: Required for Innovation May 11, 2014
• Is it helping them learn? May 11, 2014
• Disconnecting all the facts May 11, 2014
• Chinese-ing my Maths TeachingMay 11, 2014
• SHOULD WE LABEL CHILDREN? May 11, 2014
• Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher’s blog: Piddle, PEE and Wee! May 11, 2014
• Now! That’s Primary Blogging Volume Fourteen May 11, 2014
• Reflections on Go Karting May 10, 2014
• Is education in England too easy?May 10, 2014
• A 2nd Year of Blogging: The doors that opened. May 10, 2014
• Is Daniel Willingham the new Mind Gym? May 10, 2014
• I got 21 days to go…. (Part 1) May 10, 2014
• Discussion: Teaching Outside Your Comfort Zone May 10, 2014
• One More Push: Last Minute AQA English Language Revision May 10, 2014
• week 15 – training May 10, 2014
• Tears of a Clown – Saying goodbye to your school May 10, 2014
• “Stretch them and they will Soar:” the bright future of English teaching. May 10, 2014
• TDRE Boss Blog: TM Havering 2: Arranging My 2nd TeachMeetMay 10, 2014
• The Roller Coaster of Teaching in Finland – Taught by Finland May 10, 2014
• Mixed ability teaching: an additional point for lower-attaining pupils, from Eric Hawkins. – John Bald/language and literacy May 10, 2014
• Should the removal of levels lead to “best practice” May 10, 2014
• Intervention Strategies for Pupil Premium May 10, 2014
• How willpower works: the science of self-control May 10, 2014
• BPS Research Digest: Kidding ourselves on educational interventions? May 10, 2014
• Are you a Sat Nav leader? May 10, 2014
• Ian Addison’s Blog » Blog Archive » A Tender Process May 10, 2014
• Miracle on the Hudson? What can teachers learn from Atul Gawande’s The Checklist Manifesto? May 10, 2014
• Discussing @Cazzypot’s Blog: Labels, are they always the answer? May 10, 2014
• A Convergence of Interests? May 10, 2014
• Trojan horse or Zinoviev letter?May 10, 2014
• 3 reasons why you should read The Secret of Literacy May 10, 2014
• The stories told and not told by school Destination data May 10, 2014
• What I learnt about great teaching from learning to brew beer May 10, 2014
• Challenging the Lib Dem UIFSM lies May 10, 2014
• “Stretch them and they will Soar:” the bright future of English teaching. May 10, 2014
• Continuing to crack the curriculum – assessment May 10, 2014
• What can we learn from the failure of minimally guided instruction? May 10, 2014
• End Of An Era | Bill Boyd – The Literacy Adviser May 10, 2014
• Teacher Voice: What to do if someone uses your writing without permission – Tom Bennett May 10, 2014
• Society for Quality Education: Sharing Proven Effective Practices: Blog : Progressively Worse, Part 3 May 10, 2014
• … And that’s a fact! May 10, 2014
• Conor’s Commentary: A voice still to be heard May 10, 2014
• Minister hides his light under a Select Committee May 10, 2014
• Assessing attainment in computing May 10, 2014
• Honours should go to teachers first; headteachers second | Key insights May 10, 2014
• #NTENRED Wish you were there!May 10, 2014
• #pedagooglasgow | Pedagoo.orgMay 10, 2014
• The Spy Who Loved Us – Part 1: “The name’s Beyond…..” May 9, 2014
• 29 most common acronyms used in education (IMHO). May 9, 2014
• Embracing expansive approaches to the use of lesson observationMay 9, 2014
• List of SEN Tweeter via @JulesDaulby May 9, 2014
• Maths that’s Mental – May 9, 2014
• New Post: The Big Daddy: Wrestling With Assessment in the New KS3 – AndAllThat.co.uk May 9, 2014
• Turning Problems into Solutions – Statutory Duty for Careers 2014 Pt 1 | Outstanding Careers May 9, 2014
• Clothes maketh the teacher? | Teacher Support Network May 9, 2014
• The Importance of Deeper Cultural Experiences by Show My Homework May 9, 2014
• #NTENRED | Pedagoo.org May 9, 2014
• Three brief progress reports – reading, straightline graphs, and geometry – John Bald/language and literacy May 9, 2014
• Will at Work Learning: Gamification is NOT a THING !!May 9, 2014
• My packet of crisps: Case Study Behaviour – lesson 3 May 9, 2014
• Teachers and the art of surfingMay 9, 2014
• Some Thoughts on Anonymity and the Purpose of this Blog May 9, 2014
• SATS: welcome to the circus; don‘t invite Tinker! May 9, 2014
• We’re all going on a… May 9, 2014
• Why I won’t sign the open letter on PISA May 9, 2014
• Sencos and the new Code of Practice May 9, 2014
• Curriculum Freedoms – how far should we go? May 9, 2014
• Britain’s Education Establishment Persists in ‘Dumbing Down’ for Our Kids May 9, 2014
• Schools as Factories: Metaphors That Stick May 9, 2014
• Who are these people who are against learning facts? May 9, 2014
• Things will look brighter in the morning….. May 8, 2014
• Why Standard English & SPaG Matter May 8, 2014
• Introducing @SENBlogger. #SENBlogger May 8, 2014
• The Education-for-Education’s-Sake Curriculum | frogphilp.comMay 8, 2014
• Evidence Based EFL: Hubbard or Gattegno May 8, 2014
• Culture Shift | Pedagoo.org May 8, 2014
• Wisdom, Discernment, Experience. May 8, 2014
• Daily Politics soapbox – facts are vital May 8, 2014
• Evidence based – pedagogy and leadership: Providing feedback to employees (teachers) and goal setting- what’s the evidence – Part One May 8, 2014
• In which I ponder my life as part-time researcher. May 8, 2014
• Level 6 Maths at KS2. What’s the problem? May 8, 2014
• Is Web reading leaving us unable to read longer pieces? – Daniel Willingham May 8, 2014
• They were the future once May 8, 2014
• Primary Language Learning Today: Year 6 on their way to meet friends in Spain! May 8, 2014
• HEADTEACHERS’ ROUNDTABLE-LAUNCHES ITS EDUCATION MANIFESTO May 8, 2014
• Can teaching schools create a universal model for teacher preparation and development?May 8, 2014
• Teaching Apprentice: Refining My Behavioural Expectations May 8, 2014
• Exam marks changed again – does something need to be done? | Tutorhub Blog May 8, 2014
• New GCSE History – what do the boards have to offer? | One Damn Thing May 8, 2014
• More than a teacher – May 8, 2014
• A nice little number puzzle May 8, 2014
• Melanie Muldowney – A Day in the Life May 8, 2014
• Comparing US Charters and English Free Schools May 8, 2014
• A Great Education for All: Our Education Manifesto 2015 May 8, 2014
• ORRsome blog posts from the week that was Week 17 May 8, 2014
• Why good research trumps intuition May 8, 2014
• What have I learned from writing about Ofsted? Seven reflectionsMay 8, 2014
• The future of CPD May 8, 2014
• Increasing bandwidth – Planning a revision session. May 7, 2014
• Prove it! May 7, 2014
• The Working Memory Model – a brief guide for teachers May 7, 2014
• Looking back. May 7, 2014
• Displays: what and who are they for? May 7, 2014
• Over worked, under stress, past caring May 7, 2014
• [Updated] The Incentive is to Bury the Data: A Snippet from CFU | Teach Like a ChampionMay 7, 2014
• Out In Left Field: Argumentation in the 21st century May 7, 2014
• Haydn (2014) To what extent is behaviour a problem in English schools? May 7, 2014
• Society for Quality Education: Sharing Proven Effective Practices: Blog : Progressively Worse, Part 2 May 6, 2014
• Analysis and Narrative | One Damn Thing May 6, 2014
• Micro research in a macro world | Mary Myatt Learning May 6, 2014
• Society for Quality Education: Sharing Proven Effective Practices: Blog : Progressively Worse May 6, 2014
• The 10th Echo Chamber Blogpost of the Week (as featured in the Chalk Talk Podcast) May 6, 2014
• Thank Goodness RE is Complicated May 6, 2014
• Kentucky Fried Schools: Are Academies a “trade secret”? May 6, 2014
• Meetings May 6, 2014
• Research in Education: a local response to a national debate?May 6, 2014
• Education research could learn from climate change reporting.May 6, 2014
• Risking it with Rhetoric: Part OneMay 6, 2014
• A sunny Saturday in York May 6, 2014
• ResearchED York- the blogs – Tom Bennett – Blog May 6, 2014
• Cash for PhDs to teach Maths May 6, 2014
• Practice Made Permanent: ResearchED York May 6, 2014
• NTEN / ResearchED York May 5, 2014
• Assessment Without Levels – An Opportunity for Growth May 5, 2014
• Does teaching style really matter?May 5, 2014
• Thank goodness RE is complicatedMay 5, 2014
• Pay rise for Maths teachers? May 5, 2014
• Failing Schools: Conflicts over How to Write, Talk, and Make Films about Them May 5, 2014
• 8 Easy Steps To Completing a Freedom of Information RequestMay 5, 2014
• Developing a sense of number in the Early Years | Steps in teaching and learning May 5, 2014
• One scientific insight for curriculum design May 5, 2014
• Darwin’s knowledge of botanyMay 5, 2014
• This much I know about…why we must keep asking questions about Research in Education #NTENRED. May 5, 2014
• NTEN ResearchEd York – Teachers Doing It For Themselves | HuntingEnglish May 5, 2014
• #NTENRED People will forget what you say but never how you made them feel May 5, 2014
• Lessons learned from Football League Division Two 1982-83 #1: The dilatory approach May 5, 2014
• Saturday Period 1 May 5, 2014
• What I learned from spending a year in the wrong school… May 5, 2014
• The real problem with insets May 5, 2014
• True and false might not be as simple as you think. May 5, 2014
• Sunday morning – May 5, 2014
• I Am Number One – The Rise and Rise of Celebrity Culture in Education May 5, 2014
• Engaging With a Humane Education May 5, 2014
• Why China?! But why not?! May 5, 2014
• Teacher and research: a reflection on NTEN ResearchED York May 4, 2014
• Thinking about leadership….Part 5May 4, 2014