Monthly Archives: August 2014

Originally posted on Ramblings of a Teacher:
To support assessment of the new curriculum – and in line with the recommendations from the NAHT Assessment Commission’s recommendations – I have compiled lists of Key Objectives for each of the core…

Originally posted on Esse Quam Videri:
I met a teaching friend over the holiday and she told me that at her school the timetable writer has told Heads of Department that they can no longer say how they want their…

Originally posted on Until I Know Better:
This post is mostly descriptive about others’ work and ideas; little, if any, is my own work or ideas. I hope it is worth sharing. I’ve been made aware that the not-common aspects…

Originally posted on Horatio Speaks:
” . . . I essentially am not in madness, but mad in craft.” – Hamlet Long ago, Michael Marland wrote his deservedly famous book, The Craft of the Classroom. True to its title, it…

Visualiser for schools Technology overall has become a fundamental teaching and learning tool in classrooms. Proectors, iPads, SMART boards, you name it, some school, some where has got it. But for me on a personal level, in my own classroom, … Continue reading →

Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit. G. K. Chesterton Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them. Hermann Hesse I reached some … Continue reading →

Originally posted on maryisherwood:
‘The biggest problem facing schools is fragmentation and overload’ Michael Fullan There are a few things we know about change: Change is inevitable. Change can be good, but change is difficult – really really difficult. Yet…