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Election Fever

Dec 06, 2011 | Category: Featured

[caption id="attachment_773" align="alignnone" width="173" caption="Me, me, vote for me!!"][/caption] The last time I canvassed for votes was back in my school mock election in 1987. In typically awkw...

#blogging #edublog awards #Trotsky #Twitter #voting

What is it exactly that we are supposed to be preparing pupils for?

Dec 01, 2011 | Category: Featured

As with anything, the answer to the above question depends entirely on who you ask. And, also depending on who you ask the answer may well be anything from strident soundbites to mumbled confusion.I'v...

#Sir Ken Robinson #Seth Godin

Awards season

Nov 19, 2011 | Category: Featured

Being as I'm still very new to this blogging game (was it only July I made my first post?) I had no idea there were awards for it, let alone awards for educational blogging. Who knew?Well, apparently...

#Kristian Still #Dr Mark Evans #edublog awards #Laura Sutherland #Mark Anderson #Tom Bennett

Off sick

Nov 10, 2011 | Category: Featured

I had a day off yesterday. My first this year. It felt like failure.Having a day off as a teacher seems so much more troublesome than most other jobs but I'm sure it probably isn't.Firstly there's the...

#sick

To set or not to set?

Nov 26, 2011 | Category: Featured

I feel genuinely torn about this. On the one hand I am aware that there really isn't any solid research evidence that setting (or streaming) has much effect on students' attainment and some evidence w...

#Ofsted #Eric Bolton #Fearghal Kelly #mixed ability #setting #streaming

End of term

Oct 24, 2011 | Category: Featured

Term 1 is always far more exhausting than I expect it to be. Some of the highlights from last term include meeting some cracking education types including Ian Gilbert, Phil Beadle and Jim Roberson; be...

#blogging

What's the point of homework?

Sep 04, 2011 | Category: Featured

Father: What's all those books then?Son: That's my homework dad.Father: You know what son, if they can't teach you all the stuff you need to know during the day, they can't be very good at their jobs...

#Phil Beadle #detention #Hattie #homework #Marzano

Easy vs Hard

Sep 16, 2011 | Category: Featured

We choose to do these things not because they are easy but because they are hard. - JFKWe are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. - AristotleA teachers' job is not to...

#mindsets #Dweck #Gove #Effort #John Fowles #Michael Jordan #Sir Michael Wilshaw #Susanna Rustin

Knowledge or skills?

Sep 11, 2011 | Category: Featured

Skills, knowledge, who cares? I'm a huge fan of the implementation of Personal Learning and Thinking Skills as part of the English National Curriculum and feel confused and concerned about the curren...

#Cristina Milos #Gove #knowledge #skills

Is the starter finished?

Sep 03, 2011 | Category: Featured

For as long as I've been teaching (12 years) the received wisdom on the 'right' way to teach is to deliver a three, then four (or even five) part lesson: starter, guided bit where teacher is allowed t...

#Geoff Petty #John Hattie #Phil Beadle #starters