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Get ahead of the curve: stop grading lessons

Dec 11, 2013 | Category: blogging

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead Over the past few years I’ve been articulating my obje...

#Ofsted #lesson observation #Policy Exchange

What 3 things would you do to help a teacher improve?

Dec 03, 2013 | Category: training

If there was no OfSTED, no league tables, no SLT... just you and your class. What would you choose to do to make it GREAT?Do that anyway...Tom SherringtonEvery teacher needs to improve. Not because th...

#Ofsted #Zoe Elder #coaching #Dylan Wiliam #Tom Sherrington #Dan Heath

Has lesson observation become the new Brain Gym?

Nov 16, 2013 | Category: training

I've thought a lot about lesson observation over the past couple of years and have come to the conclusion that it is broken. What is most worrying is that it is almost universally accepted as the best...

#Ofsted #Sir Michael Wilshaw #Graham Nuthall #Robert Bjork #Joe Kirby #Chris Moyes #lesson observation #Mary Myatt #Matt O'Leary #Robert Coe

Anything goes: Is there a right way to teach?

Oct 20, 2013 | Category: learning

There's nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so.Shakespeare, Hamlet I read Joe Kirby's recent post on cognitive bias with interest because I've been pursuing a very similar line of enquiry. What...

#Ofsted #Sir Michael Wilshaw #cognitive bias #David Mcraney

So, what does 'gifted' mean anyway?

Jun 14, 2013 | Category: Featured

As you may be aware, non-selective secondary schools are failing the 'most able'. How do we know? Because a brand new Ofsted report tells us so. The report's key findings include such revelations as t...

#Ofsted #Tom Bennett #Geoff Barton #Tom Sherrington #G&T

Deliberately difficult - why it's better to make learning harder

Jun 10, 2013 | Category: Featured

The most fundamental goals of education are long-term goals. As teachers and educators, we want targeted knowledge and skills to be acquired in a way that makes them durable and flexible. More specifi...

#Ofsted #Dylan Wiliam #Graham Nuthall #Kev Bartle #progress #Robert Bjork #desirable difficulties #Ebbinghaus #New Theory of Disuse #Retrieval induced forgetting

Great teaching happens in cycles - the teaching sequence for developing independence

Jun 24, 2013 | Category: Featured

Last year I wrote a post called The Anatomy of an Outstanding Lesson, which has become by far my most viewed post with almost 10,000 page views. Clearly teachers are hungry for this kind of thing. But...

#Ofsted #explaining #modelling #practise #scaffolding

Independence vs independent learning

Jun 20, 2013 | Category: literacy

Last weekend #SLTchat was on fostering students' independence. As you'd expect, there were lots of great suggestions shared, as well as some not so great ideas. One comment I tweeted in response to th...

#Ofsted #Lee Donaghy #Daisy Christodoulou #independent learning #teacher talk #Tom Sherrington

The problem with progress Part 1: learning vs performance

Feb 12, 2013 | Category: Featured

What's more important? Learning or progress?[caption id="attachment_2759" align="alignleft" width="150"] Take that progress! We want learning[/caption]We've known since the publication of Ofsted's Mov...

#Ofsted #Dylan Wiliam #Kev Bartle #liminality #progress #Robert Bjork

Outstanding teaching & learning: missed opportunities and marginal gains

Oct 14, 2012 | Category: learning

I work at an 'outstanding' school where the teaching and learning is 'good'. As such we are squarely in Wilshaw's sights and almost certainly due an inspection at some point this year. We were last in...

#Ofsted #Zoe Elder #Sir Michael Wilshaw #Dave Brailsford #marginal gains