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- Career Advice for Early Career Teachers July 22, 2017
- Visit to Michaela July 22, 2017
- How to be an English teacher: designing an English PGCE – David Didau: The Learning Spy July 22, 2017
- How about a completely different primary science SCITT training? July 21, 2017
- Freedom July 21, 2017
- History’s Superpower July 21, 2017
- Teaching is a privilege July 21, 2017
- Why the KS2 science sampling results are so terrible July 21, 2017
- TDRE Boss Blog: Voice of Islam: Interviews about RE and Faith Scho… July 20, 2017
- Coherent curriculum July 20, 2017
- Why I don’t think emojis should be studied in school – David Didau: The Learning Spy July 20, 2017
- Shared Understanding is Vital to Writing — Teachwell July 19, 2017
- I LOVE our school! July 19, 2017
- Other Forms of Transit Are Available July 19, 2017
- Centralised detentions are fundamental to our behaviour system July 19, 2017
- Where is the value in assessment? – CEM Blog July 19, 2017
- Making the Extraordinary seem Ordinary July 19, 2017
- Why does Vietnam do so well in PISA? An example of why naive interpretation of international rankings is such a bad idea – Education Datalab blog July 19, 2017
- The Lindy Effect, jobs of the future, and what to teach July 18, 2017
- Guiding student improvement without individual feedback July 18, 2017
- PBL: Problem vs Project Based Learning –another distraction July 18, 2017
- TDRE Boss Blog: The Lifespan of a Textbook July 18, 2017
- Creating a New Professional Paradigm July 18, 2017
- Are you ready to question everything? July 17, 2017
- Data and exam technique – the wrong reasons to be in a flap about the new GCSEs July 17, 2017
- The Baron: Headteachers are flouting the law to keep unruly p… July 17, 2017
- No, you don’t need a fidget spinner break July 17, 2017
- Show a Little Respect: Perhaps We Do Have More in Common July 17, 2017
- I tried that and it didn’t work . . . July 16, 2017
- Engelmann (and John Stuart Mill) Revisited July 16, 2017
- Beware the nuance trap – David Didau: The Learning Spy July 15, 2017
- Not All Reading Is Equal July 15, 2017
- Conscious and unconscious minds: Implications for teaching and learning literacy – David Didau: The Learning Spy July 15, 2017
- Evidence Based Educational Leadership: The school research lead, bullsh.t and what to do … July 15, 2017
- The Subject Series, Part 3 – 10 Questions to Check how Good Your School is July 15, 2017
- We Need To Talk About Misconceptions July 15, 2017
- Teacher Clarity: A Potent Yet Often Abused Teaching Strategy July 15, 2017
- Teach Knowledge July 15, 2017
- If not knowledge, what? – David Didau: The Learning Spy July 14, 2017
- Death by Management July 14, 2017
- Minutes (2) July 13, 2017
- A short history of Ofsted short inspections – Education Datalab blog July 13, 2017
- Express Yourself — Teachwell July 11, 2017
- TDRE Boss Blog: KS2/3 Transition Knowledge Organiser: Religious Ed… July 10, 2017
- Reflections on history teaching July 10, 2017
- Falling disadvantage rates mean London schools are having to get used to life with less Pupil Premium funding – Education Datalab blog July 10, 2017
- Classroom Talk, Some Thoughts on the EEF Report… July 9, 2017
- When do the children see the adults talking? July 9, 2017
- What is a broad and balanced curriculum? – David Didau: The Learning Spy July 8, 2017
- Money for Nothing July 8, 2017
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More Light?
Originally posted on Horatio Speaks:
OPHELIA: The king rises! HAMLET: What? Frighted with false fire? CLAUDIUS: Give me some light! Away! – Hamlet In Act Three of Hamlet, the troubled prince hatches a plan to prove the king’s guilt. He…
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Why group socialisation theory argues against grammar schools – David Didau: The Learning Spy
My last post was written to explain why I thought ‘grammar schools for all’ was probably an unworkable idea. I introduced Judith Rich Harris’s group socialisation theory to support… Continued here http://ift.tt/2puusEW
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Gibberish sprinkled with question marks: in nonsense is strength
Originally posted on Othmar's Trombone:
Early on in Kurt Vonnegut’s 1973 novel Breakfast of Champions, the narration turns to the setting of the story: the United States of America. Vonnegut transcribes the first verse of the national anthem and concludes of America:…
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Education is an end in itself not a preparation for the workplace
Originally posted on chronotope:
It’s a well observed truth that because everyone has had an education, everyone feels well placed to comment on all aspects of education. Often that takes the form of “My experience of education was like this so all…
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Another one bites the dust
Originally posted on teaching personally:
So that’s it. I am told that today is officially my last day of paid employment as a teacher, at least for the time being. Although the paperwork has not come through yet, I must…
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Project-based school improvement
Originally posted on Filling the pail:
Embed from Getty Images To improve a school, it is necessary to focus on one or two things and then relentlessly go after them for about four or five years. That seems to work.…
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Elected governors and removal from office matters
Originally posted on Governing Matters:
Earlier this year the Department for Education (DfE) launched a consultation into the proposal, “Enabling maintained school boards to remove elected governors”. The consultation posed three questions: Do you agree that governing bodies should be…
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