Monthly Archives: May 2015

In this, the eighth in a series of posts examining a report on the Top 20 Principles From Psychology for Teaching and Learning, I take a closer look at Principle 8: “Student creativity can be… Continued here http://ift.tt/1Jc5Czw

Marking and feedback. Marking is feedback? Marking isn’t feedback. A little while ago I wrote this:I’d read about a school which outsourced its marking. This annoyed me. The thought behind this plan… Continued here: http://ift.tt/1dESGFx

Originally posted on to learn is to follow:
If there was a proverb that never quite won me over it was ‘a change is as good as a rest’. This is especially surprising given the frequency at which such aphorisms…

When MPs quote education statistics, I’m always curious where they got them from and whether they are accurate. Last week, Labour leadership contender Liz Kendall made a speech in Leicester… Continued here: http://ift.tt/1FMXEce

Originally posted on Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice:
In Part 1, I discussed the doctoral dissertation of Derisa Grant who tried to unravel the puzzle of Hollywood films moving from superhero teachers to “bad” teachers over the…

Originally posted on tjhampson:
N.b this post is a rant. It was written with even less care than my usual posts and isn’t that thought through. It’s more just a thought in progress I wanted to get off my chest.…

Originally posted on meridianvale:
(source: Wikimedia Commons) Many years ago, when local authority subject advisors stalked the earth (yes, that long since…) I had a wise and sanguine guy who would come in for a short while, take a reckoning…

One of the most underappreciated of sins is wasting people’s time. Frittering away an hour of someone else’s time, if you think about it, is not that different from shortening that person’s life by one hour. Time wasting is all the … Continue reading →