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- Why isn’t Engelmann in our library? August 23, 2017
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- My Favourite Class August 23, 2017
- The science of school uniform August 21, 2017
- Modern Education vs Old Education August 21, 2017
- Everyone is passive August 21, 2017
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- The tears of a clown August 21, 2017
- Daisy Christodoulou’s ‘Making good progress?’ My initial thoughts August 21, 2017
- Peter Whitton August 21, 2017
- NKOTB – the BPP PGCE August 21, 2017
- Why I won’t “check my privilege” – A defence of Individuality August 21, 2017
- Ex-teachers – your liberal democracy needs YOU! – Lib Dem Teachers August 20, 2017
- Writing the BPP History PGCE August 20, 2017
- Is my teaching practice rooted in ideology? August 20, 2017
- Why, after nine years of teaching, I’ve finally come out to my students. August 20, 2017
- Putting my oar into the knowledge versus skills debate August 20, 2017
- A Door Into The Dark August 20, 2017
- Differentiation: Good intentions are not enough August 20, 2017
- Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher’s blog: A line of beauty August 19, 2017
- Tom Bennett’s School Report: False profits, and why representation matters at r… August 19, 2017
- Metacognition and eduspeak – a distraction August 19, 2017
- Climbing Mountains in Small Steps August 19, 2017
- Do the children know what we’re going on about? August 19, 2017
- Teacher workload… we have a problem here August 18, 2017
- Forging good relationships August 18, 2017
- A-Level results day 2017: A look at changing grade distributions – Education Datalab blog August 17, 2017
- On being called a racist – David Didau: The Learning Spy August 17, 2017
- A-Level results day 2017: The impact of reform in England and Wales – Education Datalab blog August 17, 2017
- A-Level results day 2017: Is it the end of the road for AS-levels? – Education Datalab blog August 17, 2017
- A-Level results day 2017: The key trends in three charts – Education Datalab blog August 17, 2017
- Notes from Beyond: The Educational Prism August 17, 2017
- Progress, but a lot of work still to do August 17, 2017
- TDRE Boss Blog: Spinning Plates August 16, 2017
- How To Successfully Teach For Deep Understanding: The Missing Step August 16, 2017
- “Do this for OFSTED” by Sian Davies | Staffrm August 16, 2017
- Behaviour: The system, the whole system and nothing but the system August 16, 2017
- Learning Myths vs. Learning Facts August 16, 2017
- Workload: Solutions Part I August 16, 2017
- The (Covert) Action of School Improvement August 16, 2017
- Differences and similarities – David Didau: The Learning Spy August 16, 2017
- The delights of having an introverted child at school August 16, 2017
- In defence of the anecdote August 15, 2017
- Two fallacies to avoid – David Didau: The Learning Spy August 14, 2017
- Nosmo King – There’s nothing worse than an ex-prog teacher. August 14, 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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