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- What I’m reading at the moment… June 28, 2017
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- Should teachers be impartial when it comes to politics? June 27, 2017
- Teachers & the Right June 27, 2017
- Reading and Writing with Year 7 June 27, 2017
- In Praise of Discovery Learning June 27, 2017
- There is nothing wrong with teachers controlling the classroom June 27, 2017
- Pedagogical Content Knowledge in English June 27, 2017
- Folk Knowledge and Academic Learning June 27, 2017
- “But my weak students struggle with it” – Why the new GCSEs are needed June 27, 2017
- Behaviour is shit: classrooms June 26, 2017
- On the Definition of Learning…. June 26, 2017
- Collective Responsibility, Not Collective Punishment June 26, 2017
- Is traditional teaching uncool? June 26, 2017
- The Snow Report: The authentic illusion in early literacy education… June 26, 2017
- Infrastructure of School Improvement June 26, 2017
- “Pedagogy is overrated” June 25, 2017
- Spielman’s OFSTED Game Changer: The Importance of the Curriculum. June 25, 2017
- Sense from Spielman June 25, 2017
- Why Whole-School Literacy Fails! – The Confident Teacher June 25, 2017
- Behaviour is shit: policies June 25, 2017
- A yearly test? Bring it. June 25, 2017
- Detentions don’t work June 25, 2017
- Whatever the question is, intelligence is the answer – David Didau: The Learning Spy June 25, 2017
- Interviews – why do we make them so complicated? June 24, 2017
- Behaviour is shit: ideology June 24, 2017
- “Understanding” and Occam’s razor – David Didau: The Learning Spy June 24, 2017
- Are more pupils really taking arts subjects? – Education Datalab blog June 23, 2017
- Is Australia better at teaching English than the English? June 22, 2017
- Draft programme released for researchED Melbourne 2017 June 22, 2017
- A Novice->Expert Model of Learning – David Didau: The Learning Spy June 21, 2017
- Is too much choice making children miserable? June 21, 2017
- The Problem with, “What are you doing about it”? June 20, 2017
- School Data Updates: This is a low June 20, 2017
- “But we need to finish the course” – What if we plan NOT to complete the specification? June 20, 2017
- Just Saying Part 1: 2017 June 20, 2017
- On Poetry I: What is this thing we call a poem? June 20, 2017
- Notes from Beyond 1: The end of Time June 19, 2017
- The Michaela Inspection Result Is Good News for Everyone June 19, 2017
- When maths practice doesn’t add up June 19, 2017
- Starting From Here June 19, 2017
- My Visit to Michaela School – TeachingHOW2s June 18, 2017
- Throwaway culture in schools helps to produce the next generation of consumers June 18, 2017
- How helpful is Hattie & Donoghue’s model of learning? – David Didau: The Learning Spy June 18, 2017
- Steps in teaching and learning: Second guessing the observer June 18, 2017
- Should we differentiate for different ‘learning profiles’? June 18, 2017
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Monthly Archives: August 2015
What is relevance? – David Didau: The Learning Spy
A few days ago I wrote this post about how we might make learning more durable. In it, I wrote about the importance of relevance and said of my experience of attending a speed awareness course that… Continued here http://ift.tt/1KnUVvo
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The new English Language GCSE: introducing 19th century fiction
Originally posted on Othmar's Trombone:
Despite my delight at the inclusion of unseen 19th century fiction on the new English Language GCSE, I know that it will present some challenges to pupils. This means it will also present challenges to…
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Big data, little data.
Originally posted on missdcoxblog:
I’ve been thinking about what happens in many secondary schools on the first day back in September. All the staff are sat, dreaming of the lay-ins that they’ve had for the past few weeks and up…
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Empathy for the Secret Teacher
I don’t normally pay any attention to The Guardian’s Secret Teacher. It always feels to me like it’s competitive negativity – some kind of competition to see who works in the worst school. I know why The Guardian does it … Continue reading
Policy Exchange – Fining secondary schools to fund FE
A think tank, Policy Exchange, published a report this week arguing that secondary schools whose pupils fail to achieve required grades in GCSE maths and English should be fined, with funding for a ‘resit levy’ reallocated to Further Education colleges. … Continue reading
The sticky problem of threshold concepts in music
I came across the idea of threshold concepts in David Didau’s book What If Everything You Knew About Education Was Wrong? In the book he refers to the work of Jan Meyer and Ray Land, who describe threshold concepts as … Continue reading
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What Remains: Remembering Kevin, a year on
A year ago, Kevin McKellar, Head of Hendon School, took his own life. I wrote about him in the aftermath of hearing the news. It wasn’t public knowledge at the time that it was suicide, though the news did gradually … Continue reading
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