God help me, but I really enjoy reading edu-blogs: whether they contain tips, opinions, polemical rants or genuine philosophical analysis, they are all grist to my reading mill.
However, practically all the blogs that I have read buy into what I think of as the Great Myth of Pedagogy. In fact, I think all teachers (including myself) buy into it to a greater or lesser degree. Although, on reflection, perhaps members of SLT buy into it more than most.
What is this myth? It is based on the fallacy of magical thinking: as human beings, we all too often make causal connections or assume correlations between two events based on what is essentially superstition, rather than logic, evidence or reason.
“11Sc5 met their GCSE target grades because of the extra targeted intervention that I instigated.”
“Erm…you do know that only 3 of them ever turned up. And they were…
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The Echo Chamber 