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"It's all about relationships"

Nov 11, 2018 | Category: behaviour

Every now and then I come across the argument that the success or failure of a teacher is due to the quality of their relationships with students. Poor behaviour? Ineffective lessons? "It's all about...

#behaviour #Thomas Hobbes

Is our behaviour a choice?

Sep 29, 2016 | Category: behaviour

Arguments about free will date back to ancient Greece, but the scientific consensus now tends towards the belief that free will is an illusion. It's become an article of faith in the life sciences tha...

#behaviour #Reading #free will

Should everyone follow the rules?

Sep 08, 2016 | Category: behaviour

I've never liked being told what to do. I'm not a great team player and I struggle with authority. I've always chafed at constraints and, as I get older, I've become increasingly aware that what I use...

#behaviour #no excuses #punishment #rules

See it, own it: how to destroy a school

Aug 31, 2015 | Category: behaviour

I went for a coffee with a former colleague a few days ago and inevitably, after some small talk, the conversation turned to a discussion of his school. He started off by confiding that the GCSE resul...

#behaviour

'No excuses' is no excuse

May 13, 2015 | Category: behaviour

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. Rudyard Kipling I was a bit taken aback at the vigour and vitriol with which some people condemned Michaela School's approach to b...

#behaviour #Michaela School #Looked After Children

What's it like being a new teacher?

Jan 06, 2015 | Category: leadership

I've been very fortunate to spend time with a variety of new teachers over the past few years. Whether they're on PGCE placements, NQTs, RQTs or Teach First participants they are all, without exce...

#behaviour #teacher training

Undermining teachers is easy

Jan 29, 2015 | Category: leadership

Your views are out of date, David and don't work, just expecting pupils to behave.Paul Garvey, Education consultantThere are two schools in every school: the school of the high-status staff member, wi...

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Are children better than adults?

Jan 04, 2015 | Category: Featured

There is no sinner like a young saint.Aphra Behn I just read this post on why Teaching is Wonderful and while teaching is wonderful (if astonishingly gruelling) I take issue with the argument present...

#behaviour #nature

Back to school Part 1: Routines

Aug 19, 2014 | Category: leadership

This series of #backtoschool blogs summarises much of my thinking as it’s developed over the past few years and is aimed at new or recently qualified teachers. Each area has been distilled to 5 ‘top t...

#behaviour #back to school

On behaviour

Mar 20, 2014 | Category: leadership

Most of what makes classrooms work lies beneath the surface. The here and now of lessons and classrooms is dependent on the routines and relationships teachers have forged over time. If you’re clear a...

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"It's all about relationships"

Is our behaviour a choice?

Should everyone follow the rules?

See it, own it: how to destroy a school

'No excuses' is no excuse

What's it like being a new teacher?

Undermining teachers is easy

Are children better than adults?

Back to school Part 1: Routines

On behaviour

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