Monthly Archives: March 2019

Originally posted on Filling the pail:
Embed from Getty Images For reasons I cannot recall, I recently listened to this podcast in which an Australian education academic is interviewed about a book chapter he has written on teachers and social…

Originally posted on Filling the pail:
Embed from Getty Images Back in 2015, I wrote a series of three blog posts arguing that we need to change the way we train teachers. In Part II, I wrote about the research…

In Part 1 of this series I set out the problems with making predictions about students’ progress by drawing a ‘flight path’ between KS2 and KS4, then, in Part 2, I explained how thinking about the… Continued here https://ift.tt/2Oufs6y

Originally posted on Scenes From The Battleground:
If you teach in a state school in England, you have probably experienced a “work scrutiny” where your superiors take some of your students’ books and try to determine something about the quality…

In my last post, I set out the problems with making predictions about students’ progress by drawing a ‘flight path’ between KS2 ad KS4. This posts begins to discuss what we should do instead. The… Continued here https://ift.tt/2Jzg4Zv

Schools are desperate to find ways to predict students’ progress from year to year and between key stages. Seemingly, the most common approach to solving this problem is to produce some sort of… Continued here https://ift.tt/2UcaCQJ

How have pupils in coastal areas fared under the GCSE reforms of recent years? Continued here: https://ift.tt/2HM45VV

Originally posted on Filling the pail:
One of the most obvious signs that teachers are starting to take control of the education agenda is when there is resistance from the establishment. There are hints that we are approaching this state…

Originally posted on Filling the pail:
Embed from Getty Images People are attracted to attempts to generally boost our cognitive abilities for obvious reasons. Traditionally, the way to improve at mathematics or piano playing or writing essays has been to…