Monthly Archives: February 2019

Originally posted on A Chemical Orthodoxy:
In 1918, the Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded to a war criminal. In the early years of the 20th century, German scientist Fritz Haber developed a process to artificially synthesise ammonia, a vital…

Originally posted on stealingbiscuitsiswrong?:
After an incredibly stressful Year 11 lesson in which several members of that group had to be removed for defiant behaviour. This was the comment that greeted me the next day when a member of the…

Exploring changes in the type of provision attended by pupils with special educational needs. Continued here: https://ift.tt/2Su4o9A

Originally posted on Trivium 21c:
Curriculum Shorts (Some short musings about curriculum) We all know what we mean by a knowledge-rich curriculum but, as with all pithy phrases, we don’t. And if that isn’t a great contradiction, I don’t know…

Originally posted on Scenes From The Battleground:
I first joined the NUT (National Union Of Teachers) back in 2001 as a PGCE student. It is now part of the NEU (National Education Union). This year, I finally resigned my membership.…

Originally posted on Filling the pail:
In 1993, John Major, the British Prime Minister, stood up at the Conservative Party conference in Blackpool and announced his ‘back to basics’ campaign. It was meant to be a call for a return…

Originally posted on Filling the pail:
Embed from Getty Images One of the implications of Cognitive Load Theory is that inquiry-based learning is ineffective. When I make this point, I often provoke a response similar to Mike Ollerton’s response here:…

Originally posted on Filling the pail:
Embed from Getty Images I have written before that, as a young teacher, I thought I should be using inquiry-learning-style teaching strategies, that I could not make these work very well and so I…

Originally posted on Governing Matters:
I have previously written about what may make a person the “right” person to have on your board. I think it is equally important for people to consider if the board they are thinking of…