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- The Dangers of a Personalised Curriculum September 25, 2017
- My little homily September 24, 2017
- Student Assessment of Learning in the Classroom September 24, 2017
- Is ‘mental health’ the new ‘dumbing down’? September 24, 2017
- Outstanding Teacher Job Adverts – #rEDRugby 17 Part 3 September 24, 2017
- “Outstanding” My #rEDRugby 2017 Talk Part 2 September 24, 2017
- Lightening the load – how to make big gains in learning by doing less. September 23, 2017
- Shoot the Target Grade September 22, 2017
- Are Ofsted’s new short inspection proposals a good idea? – Education Datalab blog September 22, 2017
- Pressure – What pressure? September 21, 2017
- Advice for First Term Middle Leaders September 21, 2017
- #pomoED September 20, 2017
- Creating a Classroom Culture: The ‘Centre’ September 20, 2017
- Dear White Teachers September 20, 2017
- Great books for the sceptical teacher by @oldandrewuk September 19, 2017
- A teacher is an authoritative guide September 18, 2017
- Routines in the classroom | Conception of the good September 18, 2017
- Education needs its non-conformists September 18, 2017
- Notes from Nowhere September 17, 2017
- A Story of Resilience: Dr Mary-Claire King – The Confident Teacher September 17, 2017
- Eliminating anxiety in schools September 17, 2017
- Keeping students on the maths bus September 17, 2017
- Do students learn more from who their teachers are? September 16, 2017
- Are IQ tests biased or meaningless? – David Didau: The Learning Spy September 15, 2017
- Teaching and learning– what actually works? September 13, 2017
- Nazis in Charlottesville September 13, 2017
- Some thoughts on turning around tough schools September 13, 2017
- rED17 Blogs, presentations, video links September 13, 2017
- Nature or Nurture? Free Will and Education. September 13, 2017
- The Dunning-Kruger Effect and Self-Assessment September 13, 2017
- The British researchED Movement: Is the Time Ripe in Canada? September 13, 2017
- Is gaslighting a thing, or am I going mad? – David Didau: The Learning Spy September 12, 2017
- TDRE Boss Blog: My Starters For Five September 11, 2017
- ResearchEd 2017 – The Confident Teacher September 11, 2017
- The Baron: Don’t be fooled: schools are still plagued by bad … September 10, 2017
- Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher’s blog: When did we start narrowing education? September 10, 2017
- Entering Third Year September 10, 2017
- Why didn’t you tell me? 5 things I wish I had been told sooner September 10, 2017
- Practising Declarative Knowledge September 10, 2017
- What messages do we give to students about Exams, Learning and Achievement? September 10, 2017
- How many people believe learning styles theories are right? And why? September 10, 2017
- If It Ain’t There, It’s Broke! September 10, 2017
- Student confrontations by @HoratioSpeaks September 10, 2017
- Working after 4:20 …. by @pjmerrell September 10, 2017
- The Reading Department September 10, 2017
- The dangers of oversimplification September 10, 2017
- Cover Work September 10, 2017
- Cycling a fair distance to school by @moleycule September 10, 2017
- Tom Bennett’s School Report: Educating Manchester 1: Loving the alien September 10, 2017
- ‘Four Quarters Marking’ – A Workload Solution? September 10, 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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