Monthly Archives: April 2018

Originally posted on Scenes From The Battleground:
In a recent blogpost I made the following comments about how OFSTED could change: Don’t add to workload. There’s a lot of debate about how inspections could prevent teachers having too much workload. If…

In my last post I argued that thinking about English as a ‘skills based’ subject is counter-productive. One response to this was to say, “Hang on, what about practice. If you can… Continued here https://ift.tt/2HWUjB0

Originally posted on teaching personally:
Priceline.com was an online company that sold excess airline capacity. By the year 2000, the stock market had capitalised it to the tune of $150bn, or more than the value of the entire airline industry.…

Originally posted on TomNeedham:
I have been teaching DI schemes for a couple of years now, having first been made aware of Engelmann’s work via Joe Kirby’s blog post https://pragmaticreform.wordpress.com/2013/02/02/direct-instruction/, which gives an excellent overview of the theory, approach and…

Originally posted on Lee Donaghy:
? The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development – administers of the infamous PISA tests (a kind of educational Mirror of Erised, for those looking into them tend to magically see evidence for their heart’s…

Originally posted on Scenes From The Battleground:
I’ve written a lot in the past about school shaming. The Daily Mail is still shaming schools Don’t Twitter shame a school and call it a debate What’s it like for a school to be…

Originally posted on Filling the pail:
Embed from Getty Images I subscribe to an electronic newsletter known as The Educator Australia. It’s pretty good for news stories and the release of new government policy papers or think-tank reports. However, one popular…

In a couple of weeks, year 6 pupils will be sitting down to SATs examinations and in secondary schools, A Level and GCSE exams will start in earnest. Teachers everywhere … Continued here: https://ift.tt/2HE0YMT

Originally posted on Filling the pail:
In an article for the Times Educational Supplement, Dr. Mary Bousted, a leader of the National Education Union in the UK, makes a number of arguments that are critical of the education system in England…

Today the Education Endowment Foundation has released their latest guidance report on ‘Metacognition and Self-regulation‘. I have been delighted to be one of the co-writers of this… Continued here: https://ift.tt/2JsWHN1