Monthly Archives: October 2020

Do We Need to Sort Out Silent Reading? – The Confident Teacher

DEAR (Drop Everything and Read) or ERIC (Everyone Reads in Class) are very common approaches to independent reading that occur each week in countless schools. They are part of the fabric of … Continued here: https://ift.tt/34IfbGx

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Pupils in the poorest areas of the country are missing the most schooling – Education Datalab blog

Northern local authorities have had some of the highest absence rates, our analysis shows Continued here: https://ift.tt/31R7dcs

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Why experienced teachers can get cynical and what might be done about it – some thoughts

Originally posted on fish64:
Now I am nearing the end of my career, I tend to look back more frequently than before. I would like to start with some things which, if not introduced properly, can make experienced teachers very…

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Is teaching bad for your wellbeing? – Education Datalab blog

New research compares the happiness and life satisfaction of teachers to that of other professionals Continued here: https://ift.tt/2Txu20q

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Curriculum related expectations: using the curriculum as a progression model – David Didau: The Learning Spy

One of the barriers to using the curriculum as a progression model is that there is too little understanding of what this might mean. It sounds great but a bit mysterious. I’ve spoken to a number of… Continued here https://ift.tt/2JbO8va

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Intelligent Accountability: An overview – David Didau: The Learning Spy

My new book, Intelligent Accountability: Creating the conditions for teachers to thrive is back from the printers and will be shipping soon. The argument I make is that while accountability is wholly… Continued here https://ift.tt/31G2Kcx

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Is it time to KO the Knowledge Organiser? – The Confident Teacher

What if tools commonly used in the classroom threaten to inhibit the learning they were developed to support? Too often, a well-meaning teaching tool can get detached from the thinking which made … Continued here: https://ift.tt/2HAGUQI

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The GCSE attainment of black Caribbean pupils is falling – Education Datalab blog

Exploring why attainment for this group remains low, especially in maths Continued here: https://ift.tt/2HaYXgm

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Pictures at an exhibition – Part 1.

Originally posted on teaching personally:
“Education is what is left when someone has forgotten everything he learned in school” (Attributed to Alfred Einstein) Hubris is not something I admire, so I apologise in advance for that in the following post…

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Disciplinary ‘noticing,’ or ‘creative reading’ – David Didau: The Learning Spy

… languages recognized, not as the means of contemporary communication but as investments in thought and records of perceptions and analogical understandings; literatures recognized as the… Continued here https://ift.tt/3lbEiHq

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