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- How many pupils in mainstream schools are regularly educated off-site? – Education Datalab blog July 1, 2022
- Why were GCSE grades in independent schools so high during the pandemic? – Education Datalab blog June 29, 2022
- Attainment 8 in 2022 – Education Datalab blog June 24, 2022
- How many pupils fall below the proposed national thresholds for legal intervention due to absence? – Education Datalab blog June 21, 2022
- Royal National Children’s Springboard Foundation evaluation report – Education Datalab blog June 20, 2022
- Teaching Vocabulary and Mighty Morphemes – The Confident Teacher June 18, 2022
- How many children are in unregistered alternative provision? – Education Datalab blog June 16, 2022
- Do teenagers who feel anxious about testing achieve worse GCSE grades? – Education Datalab blog June 15, 2022
- Write like the Romans – The Confident Teacher June 12, 2022
- Why A-Level physics students are doubly penalised by grading severity – Education Datalab blog June 8, 2022
- Criticising resources June 6, 2022
- Leading Literacy… And Communicating Complexity – The Confident Teacher June 5, 2022
- Embedding reading fluency in the KS3 English curriculum – David Didau: The Learning Spy May 29, 2022
- The Grammar Gap – The Confident Teacher May 28, 2022
- Closing the Writing Gap – New Resources – The Confident Teacher May 22, 2022
- Year 11 attendance during the build-up to exams – Education Datalab blog May 20, 2022
- The size of multi-academy trusts – Education Datalab blog May 18, 2022
- Introducing… Closing the Writing Gap – The Confident Teacher May 17, 2022
- Does taking A-Level maths improve your grades in physics and computer science? – Education Datalab blog May 13, 2022
- Repeat suspensions and exclusions during compulsory schooling – Education Datalab blog May 11, 2022
- Leading Literacy… And Purposeful Professional Development – The Confident Teacher May 7, 2022
- Kirchhoff — and die happy May 2, 2022
- Leading Literacy… And Influencing Teachers – The Confident Teacher April 30, 2022
- Is there is a link between Year 11 pupils’ wellbeing and their GCSE grades? – Education Datalab blog April 28, 2022
- Is A level maths a requirement for A level physics and computer science? – Education Datalab blog April 26, 2022
- Leading Literacy… And Perennial Problems – The Confident Teacher April 24, 2022
- The Importance of Early Literacy – Education Datalab blog April 15, 2022
- Five things we’ve learned this term about pupil absence – Education Datalab blog April 8, 2022
- 6 Micro-moves for Academic Talk – The Confident Teacher April 2, 2022
- Do disadvantaged students choose different subjects from their peers at Key Stage 5? – Education Datalab blog April 1, 2022
- Why has DfE chosen such an unusual measure as its GCSE target in the new White Paper? – Education Datalab blog March 28, 2022
- Simple Questions to Support Change – The Confident Teacher March 20, 2022
- 30 Years of Ofsted – Education Datalab blog March 16, 2022
- Units, you nit! March 13, 2022
- The case against Power Point as means of implementing curriculum – David Didau: The Learning Spy March 13, 2022
- The FFT Regional Attendance Tracker – Education Datalab blog March 11, 2022
- Does it matter if you don’t get a C (or 4) grade in GCSE mathematics? – Education Datalab blog March 10, 2022
- Assessing English at KS3 – David Didau: The Learning Spy March 5, 2022
- Come work with me… – David Didau: The Learning Spy March 4, 2022
- How can the government’s target of 90% of pupils achieving the expected standards at Key Stage 2 be achieved? – Education Datalab blog March 1, 2022
- Why ‘disrupting education’ doesn’t work – The Confident Teacher February 19, 2022
- Who should read aloud in class? – The Confident Teacher February 12, 2022
- How did the attainment gap change during the pandemic? – Education Datalab blog February 11, 2022
- Do disadvantaged children receive enough financial education in school? – Education Datalab blog February 11, 2022
- Are there socio-economic differences in how parents interact with their children about money? – Education Datalab blog February 11, 2022
- What’s the point of more elite sixth forms? – Education Datalab blog February 11, 2022
- The financial skills of children. What can rich kids do that poor kids can’t? – Education Datalab blog February 10, 2022
- How unequal are children’s financial literacy skills? – Education Datalab blog February 10, 2022
- Marking is murder! – The Confident Teacher February 5, 2022
- Will the Government’s latest attendance initiative work? – Education Datalab blog February 4, 2022
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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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See it, own it: how to destroy a school – David Didau: The Learning Spy
I went for a coffee with a former colleague a few days ago and inevitably after some small talk the conversation returned to a discussion of the school we had worked in together. He started off by… Continued here http://ift.tt/1ieyJas
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To infinity… and beyond: One in, one out… That’s how it goes!
To infinity… and beyond: One in, one out… That’s how it goes!: I’ve found this year difficult. Whether that’s to do with the current climate around education as a whole or just the climate in my…
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Can we make learning permanent? – David Didau: The Learning Spy
How can we know whether a student has learned something? TheTo answer that we need a working definition of what we mean by learning and the one I’ve come up with is tripartite; learning is… Continued here http://ift.tt/1X2dMzz
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