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- Could there be demand for more post-16 maths? – Education Datalab blog January 25, 2023
- Which subjects do high attaining pupils go on to study at Key Stage 5? – Education Datalab blog January 24, 2023
- The Problem with ‘Just Google It’ – The Confident Teacher January 22, 2023
- 5 Free Research Reads on…Teacher Professional Development – The Confident Teacher January 21, 2023
- 5 Free Research Reads On… Teaching Spelling – The Confident Teacher January 14, 2023
- What happens to permanently excluded pupils? – Education Datalab blog January 10, 2023
- 7 Helpful Vocabulary Websites – The Confident Teacher January 7, 2023
- The long(er)-term impact of long-term disadvantage at school – Education Datalab blog January 4, 2023
- Autumn term absence round-up – Education Datalab blog December 15, 2022
- How much does prior attainment in English and maths vary by Key Stage 5 subject choice? – Education Datalab blog December 7, 2022
- Weekday attendance analysis: a new report for schools – Education Datalab blog December 6, 2022
- Scurvy Seadogs and Using Research Evidence – The Confident Teacher December 3, 2022
- Previously outstanding secondary schools – Education Datalab blog November 22, 2022
- 10 Creative Ways to Teach Vocabulary – The Confident Teacher November 19, 2022
- Special schools and academisation – Education Datalab blog November 16, 2022
- Understanding what makes some schools stressful places to work – Education Datalab blog November 15, 2022
- A quick overview of FFT estimates for secondary schools – Education Datalab blog November 11, 2022
- A quick overview of FFT estimates for primary schools – Education Datalab blog November 11, 2022
- The relationship between schools’ Progress 8 scores and the number of qualifications their pupils enter – Education Datalab blog November 8, 2022
- The rise of STEAM – Education Datalab blog November 7, 2022
- The Problem with Teaching Sophisticated Vocabulary – The Confident Teacher November 5, 2022
- Ten things we’ve learned about teachers’ anxiety about work during the pandemic – Education Datalab blog November 3, 2022
- The relationship between month of birth, exclusions and identification of special educational needs – Education Datalab blog November 2, 2022
- Absence in the first half term of 2022/23 – Education Datalab blog November 1, 2022
- Schools Like Yours – Updated for 2022 – Education Datalab blog October 31, 2022
- Teacher-led vs student-led lesson activities – David Didau: The Learning Spy October 29, 2022
- Key Stage 4 2022: The national picture – Education Datalab blog October 20, 2022
- Key Stage 4 2022: The picture at school level – Education Datalab blog October 20, 2022
- What’s Progress 8 good for? Lower-attaining pupils – Education Datalab blog October 18, 2022
- Gapless instruction vs ‘teaching to the top’ – David Didau: The Learning Spy October 15, 2022
- The incidence of special educational needs since the introduction of the new Code of Practice – Education Datalab blog October 11, 2022
- Using mini whiteboards in English – David Didau: The Learning Spy October 9, 2022
- Implementing English: five useful teaching strategies – David Didau: The Learning Spy October 9, 2022
- Flat packed curriculum – David Didau: The Learning Spy September 25, 2022
- The rate at which pupils left the state-funded mainstream school sector fell during the pandemic (but not among pupils with EHC plans) – Education Datalab blog September 21, 2022
- To what extent is the KS2 disadvantage gap explained by pupil absence? – Education Datalab blog September 20, 2022
- Developing Skilled Readers (Knowledge + Strategy) – The Confident Teacher September 17, 2022
- Does writing *really* matter in art and design? – The Confident Teacher September 10, 2022
- Digging further into the Key Stage 2 attainment gap – Education Datalab blog September 8, 2022
- Why teaching academic vocabulary matters – The Confident Teacher September 3, 2022
- Key Stage 4 attainment in 2022: The headlines – Education Datalab blog September 2, 2022
- Independent schools might not have gamed the system but the grades they awarded in 2020 and 2021 were still unfair – Education Datalab blog August 30, 2022
- Why don’t more pupils study modern foreign languages at GCSE? – Education Datalab blog August 26, 2022
- Some more things we’ve learned about schools’ GCSE results – Education Datalab blog August 26, 2022
- GCSE Results 2022: What does the National Reference Test tell us about how achievement in maths and English over time? – Education Datalab blog August 25, 2022
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Monthly Archives: December 2015
ORRsome blog posts December 2015
Originally posted on high heels and high notes:
This is the last ORRsome blog posts of the year. Having blogged in 2014 as a weekly feature and for 2015 as a monthly feature, I feel now is the time to…
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Reflections on Journeys
thinkingreadingwritings It’s been a year of two kinds of journeys. For students, the journey is one through seemingly impassable obstacles to a new vantage point, a journey of not just discovery but also self-discovery. This series of posts traces that … Continue reading
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Can a false choice be an object of research?
Originally posted on Filling the pail:
I read an interesting post by Ross McGill?on his pet peeves. Some of them seem reasonable although anyone who thinks textbooks are outmoded because they cannot include all the information in the world should…
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That was 2015…
Originally posted on Class Teaching:
As the end of the year approaches, it seems only right to write the obligatory ‘review of 2015’ blog! As we look back over each month, I’ll share my own favourite from here, as well…
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Ambition 2: Other people’s and what to do about them.
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I suppose there is just a slim chance that those headmasters were sagging because they had spotted in me the potential for top management and were trying to nurture it – but I doubt it.…
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Annual report 2015 – David Didau: The Learning Spy
Well, 2015 has been and gone. It’s been a great year for me personally and one in which the blog has continued to make waves. It seems that as more and more ordinary teachers are liberated from… Continued here http://ift.tt/1Smak1d
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Is teaching a ‘natural ability’?
Originally posted on Evidence into Practice:
What characteristics does a teacher need to be effective? The answer appears to be elusive as various reviews find that most teacher characteristics appear to have only marginal impact on student attainment. For example, looking…
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Reflections on the Hard Road to Success
thinkingreadingwritings As part of this year’s time of reflection, I have been considering my own sense of urgency in communicating to educators not only the enormous scale of the problem, but also that solutions to the problem already exist. While … Continue reading
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Learning from satellite navigation
Originally posted on Filling the pail:
I hate being given directions. My eyes glaze-over and I lose the thread. “Just give me the address!” I want to scream. I can tap that into my iPhone and satellite navigation will do the…
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December on The Learning Spy – David Didau: The Learning Spy
December has traditionally been a bit of a fallow period as far as this blog is concerned, but this year, despite the inevitable Christmas lull I continued to churn out posts. Here they are in all… Continued here http://ift.tt/1OYfomN
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