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- Three Pillars of Vocabulary Teaching – The Confident Teacher May 8, 2021
- Have disadvantaged pupils fallen further behind during the pandemic? – Education Datalab blog May 7, 2021
- Benchmarking GCSE results using historical data – Education Datalab blog May 4, 2021
- A Gnome-inal Value for ‘g’ May 3, 2021
- 13 insights into teacher wellbeing and mental health – Education Datalab blog April 30, 2021
- IntoUniversity evaluation report – Education Datalab blog April 29, 2021
- PISA 2018: How representative is the data for England and Wales? – Education Datalab blog April 22, 2021
- PISA 2018: Did certain schools select out of the study in England and Northern Ireland? – Education Datalab blog April 22, 2021
- PISA 2018 in Scotland: It’s all a bit of a mess – Education Datalab blog April 22, 2021
- Nature Abhors A Change In Flux April 18, 2021
- The ‘Language Leap’ at Transition – The Confident Teacher April 17, 2021
- The Coulomb Train Model Revisited (Part 5) April 11, 2021
- Does reading *really* matter in mathematics? – The Confident Teacher April 10, 2021
- KS3 Curriculum Conversations April 8, 2021
- The Coulomb Train Model Revisited (Part 4) April 3, 2021
- FIFA and Really Challenging GCSE Physics Calculations March 28, 2021
- How much school did Year 11 miss in the Autumn term? – Education Datalab blog March 23, 2021
- Do primary schools close the attainment gap for disadvantaged pupils? – Education Datalab blog March 22, 2021
- A reading curriculum: Gap-widening vs gap-narrowing – David Didau: The Learning Spy March 21, 2021
- The Coulomb Train Model Revisited (Part 3) March 20, 2021
- Do disadvantaged schools tend to be judged by Ofsted more highly for leadership and management than for overall effectiveness? – Education Datalab blog March 19, 2021
- How is school accountability linked to teacher stress? – Education Datalab blog March 18, 2021
- The risk of experiencing custody aged 16-18 – Education Datalab blog March 17, 2021
- Has a GCSE grade C/4 lost its value? – Education Datalab blog March 15, 2021
- The Coulomb Train Revisited (Part 2) March 14, 2021
- Report – All models are wrong, some of these might be useful – Education Datalab blog March 10, 2021
- The Coulomb Train Model Revisited (Part 1) March 10, 2021
- Teaching Newton’s Third Law March 7, 2021
- The Magic of the Classroom – The Confident Teacher March 6, 2021
- How should writing fit into the English curriculum? – David Didau: The Learning Spy March 3, 2021
- What are the most popular subject combinations at A-Level? – Education Datalab blog March 2, 2021
- Chime! February 21, 2021
- Are low expectations holding back disadvantaged pupils in the north? – Education Datalab blog February 17, 2021
- Making Meaning in English: An exploration of the role of knowledge in language and literature – David Didau: The Learning Spy February 9, 2021
- Reforming GCSE English literature and language – David Didau: The Learning Spy February 8, 2021
- Making Meaning in English: Book launch – David Didau: The Learning Spy January 31, 2021
- Brass Tacks January 26, 2021
- The impact of being long-term disadvantaged at KS2 and KS4 – Education Datalab blog January 25, 2021
- Should we worry about handwriting? – The Confident Teacher January 23, 2021
- What can we learn about Covid transmission in schools from teacher absence figures? – Education Datalab blog January 22, 2021
- Educational dog whistles (and how not to blow them) – David Didau: The Learning Spy January 21, 2021
- Using grammar to make meaning – David Didau: The Learning Spy January 19, 2021
- Flipping Fronted Adverbials – The Confident Teacher January 18, 2021
- Five Things I Wish I’d Known About Literacy – The Confident Teacher January 16, 2021
- Scrap the “privileged middle class” view January 11, 2021
- Rivet counters December 30, 2020
- Gimme time! December 22, 2020
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Monthly Archives: April 2017
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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Why ‘grammar schools for all’ won’t work – David Didau: The Learning Spy
A better, but overlong, title for this would be “Why grammar schools don’t work for all and why ‘grammar schools for all’ (probably) won’t work”. At the birth of… Continued here http://ift.tt/2pwmehI
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Learning by rote doesn’t mean not understanding
Originally posted on MrHistoire.com:
https://twitter.com/Heatherleatt/status/858198256098181121 Does anyone actually teach decontextualised facts? I’ve made this argument previously, but it seems to be popping up again, with Heather Leatt’s response to an article in the T*S prompting yet more immature thinking on…
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No, don’t forget everything we know about memory
Originally posted on Evidence into Practice:
With a renewed interest in cognitive science within teaching, are we in risk of “conflating hypothetical models with proven neuroscience since accepted facts can quickly become ‘neuro-myths’ when new research contradicts popular theories” as Ellie Mulcahy…
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