Monthly Archives: March 2019

The Problem With ‘Woke’ Teachers

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Constructing EduTwitter

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…

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Is scientific evidence ‘phallic’?

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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…

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How do we know pupils are making progress? Part 3: Assessment – David Didau: The Learning Spy

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

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The silliest feedback from work scrutinies

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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…

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How do we know pupils are making progress? Part 2: The curriculum – David Didau: The Learning Spy

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

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How do we know pupils are making progress? Part 1: The problem with flightpaths – David Didau: The Learning Spy

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

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Progress 8 for disadvantaged pupils in coastal schools – Education Datalab blog

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

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This is what happens when teachers find their voice

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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…

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Barking up the wrong tree

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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…

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