Monthly Archives: June 2014

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.David Hockney Like many others, I got very excited to see thispublished on the Ofsted website back in February: Inspectors must not give the impression that Ofsted favours … Continue reading →

Originally posted on batttuk:
Another cracking post from our resident guest-blogging head. Had your sports day or about to? This post is for you… Some statements here scarily realistic. Sports day rules. These are the rules for sports day, how…

Originally posted on Ramblings of a Teacher:
Are we deceiving ourselves about cohesion? (Cartoon from xkcd.com/724) I wrote back in the autumn of 2013 about how I found the endless march through text types to be ineffective in really securing…

Originally posted on chemistrypoet:
Today (29 June 2014), the HMI David Brown (@DavidBrownHMI) set me some home work. It’s a long series of tweets (and I don’t posses the technological know how to capture them and place them here….sorry). Essentially,…

Originally posted on The Cart Before the Horse:
I consider myself very fortunate that I didn’t go straight from my degree to doing a PGCE. I took a year out. I didn’t do the Backpacker thing, I set about getting…

Originally posted on Evidence into Practice:
The hard problems of education Education is faced with many hard problems. Perhaps two of the biggest at the moment are: Which teaching methods lead to the greatest gains for our students? How do…

Originally posted on Wayfinder Learning Lab – Stephen Taylor:
Nothing suggests ‘loner’ quite like a table for one and a book with that cover blurb. 😉 #GrowthMindset After reading/hearing so much about Carol Dweck’s Mindset over the last couple of years,…

On Saturday I spoke at an After the Coalition conference, organised by Mike Finn FRSA from Liverpool Hope University. It was a terrific first attempt at what will hopefully be an annual event. I’m hoping that our Fellows in the North … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Lambeth NEU:
Because of our strike action to far, we have stopped Gove taking away our holidays. We have stopped him removing PPA time and we have won £800 in our pensions that we would not otherwise…