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Revisiting lost learning by Gerald Haigh

Nov 30, 2014 | Category: learning

In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important a function as recollecting. - William James As teachers, we tend to do all in our power to prevent students from forgetting what we...

#learning #Robert Bjork #performance #forgetting #Gerald Haigh #music

Chasing our tails - is AfL all it's cracked up to be?

Aug 29, 2013 | Category: assessment

Is it blasphemous to doubt the efficacy of AfL? While purists might argue that it's 'just good teaching', we teach in a world where formative assessment has become dogma and where feedback is king. (D...

#learning #AfL #assessment #Input/output myth #performance #remembering #understanding

What's the point of assessment?

Aug 22, 2011 | Category: assessment

Came across an interesting challenge by @purposeducation - #500words campaign, This week the topic is #purposedassess, so here goes... Everyone knows that there's two different types of assessment, ri...

#learning #AfL #formative assessment #Dylan Wiliam #Sir Ken Robinson #summative assessment

What's the point of lesson observations?

Jul 17, 2011 | Category: Featured

I feel I need to start by saying that I am not questioning the need for lesson observations. They're a crucial part of developing our professional practice and ensure T&L is quality assured. No, what...

#learning #AfL #coaching #lesson observations

So, what are learning spies?

Jul 11, 2011 | Category: learning

A few years ago an Ofsted inspector told me I talked too much and that as a result the lesson that had been observed was 'satisfactory'. I was gutted. I was also determined to do something about it.Th...

#learning #critical skills #observers #roles #spies #Zoe Elder

Getting to grips with PLTS

Jul 11, 2011 | Category: learning

This was first written in October 2009So, the PLTS. What are they and why would you want to embed them into anything? I’m quite sure that I won’t be surprising many people by telling you that Personal...

#learning #PLTS

Formative assessment and the mark scheme

Jul 23, 2011 | Category: assessment

I’ve been consciously and actively using exam board mark schemes as an essential component of formative assessment with my classes for some time now and thought it was time to share what I was up to m...

#learning #English #AfL #formative assessment #mark schemes

Emerging leaders

Jul 20, 2011 | Category: leadership

Have just completed the last session of the leadership course I've been on for the last 6 weeks. What great CPD!For this final session we all had to prepare a presentation on a project which had lead...

#learning #PLTS #Guy Claxton #leadership

Rip it up: Hula hooping about literature

Jul 16, 2011 | Category: English

I keep this post on the site to remind me just how far I've come. When I wrote this in 2011, despite teaching for 12 years, I knew practically nothing about education. I am now rather ashamed and emba...

#learning #creativity #hula hoops #risks

The Learning Loop

Jul 12, 2011 | Category: learning

For last few years we (the English faculty) have been teaching our GCSE course over 3 years. I made the decision this time last year to begin our three year programme of study with a scheme of learnin...

#learning #Belbin #Carol Dweck #critical skills #growth #learning spies #messy learning #mindsets #PLTS #process #product