Monthly Archives: August 2015

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

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…

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 →

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 →

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

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…

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