Monthly Archives: December 2018

This is the first of a series of posts about the arguments in my new book, Making Kids Cleverer. The intention is, obviously, to sharpen your appetite in the hope that you’ll actually give it a read…. Continued here http://bit.ly/2Sz7ydm

After almost 8 years of blogging, I find myself becoming more erratic and less concerned about updating the site. That said, I still manage to write 61 posts over the course of 2018. These are the… Continued here http://bit.ly/2GPchpT

Policy makers should guard against uncritical use of PISA international test results, according to researchreleased today by Cambridge Assessment. The findings come as the latest round of PISA testing in UK schools and globally is drawing to a close, with the … Continue reading →

Thinking About Teaching & Learning : Thinking about… Rosenshine’s principles of instr…: The Sutton Trust’s paper, ‘what makes great teaching?’ identifies quality of instruction as one of the components that has the greatest imp…

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Galled by my own predictable slavishness to the Gregorian calendar, I find myself reflecting on the year gone by. The whole New Year shebang is mawkish and overblown in my opinion. If we are going…

Originally posted on Matthew Evans:
In the past month I have been distracted from the things I would like to be doing at work. It is immensely frustrating. I have been drawn to things that really need my full attention,…

Originally posted on primarytimerydotcom:
Far be it from me to position myself as the queen of healthy eating. However, even I know that heavily processed food is less good for us than food in its natural, unprocessed state. Whether raw…

Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher’s blog: Fake news: I care more than you do.: There is one thing about teaching that never changes. Teachers care. In fact, they care a lot. They care so much they listen to … Continue reading →