Monthly Archives: July 2013

I’ve always thought it interesting how, as a profession, we find the ideas of cognitive psychologists so beguiling and persuasive. As a recently qualified teacher, I first heard of the work of Howard Gardner at an INSET day in the … Continue reading →

Originally posted on heavy metal leadership:
Senior leadership. It doesn’t matter who you are, or where you work, there will always be difficult conversations to be had, unpopular decisions to be made and other staff will resent you for not…

Originally posted on Education, Sport and Life:
So, it’s been a while since I have blogged due to moving house and still not having any internet. But I feel like I need to!  Thankfully, it is now the summer holidays…

Originally posted on Teaching: Leading Learning:
Dear Chris, It’s 1997, and you’re about to start your teaching career. In May, as you were completing your PGCE, Tony Blair led the Labour Party out of 18 years of opposition to win…

Originally posted on Horatio Speaks:
There are certain concepts that become so much part of the language and the cultural assumptions of one’s profession that they go unnoticed. In education, one of the most prevalent – and pernicious  – is…

Lately, I have been thinking more about SteveH’s experience of an elementary teacher dismissing his young son’s knowledge of geography as “mere facts” because I have steered my family’s educational boat even more towards the classical model over the last … Continue reading →

The author is a teacher. Joe Baron is a pseudonym.   11am   ‘F**k off!’ he shouts. John is typical of many of our kids: stunted, undernourished and utterly feral. ‘Come here, please,’ I reply, consciously controlling the tone of … Continue reading →