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Attention, meaning & consolidation: matching technique to purpose

Jan 12, 2024 | Category: English

It's become increasingly clear to me that training teachers on how to use pedagogical techniques is of limited use. Over the past year or so I've lost count of the times I've watched a teacher act on...

#Tom Sherrington #Mary Kennedy

Where now for school improvement?

Jul 03, 2016 | Category: Featured

In the past, school improvement was easy. You could push pupils into taking BTECs or Diplomas (sometimes with 100% coursework) equivalent to multiple GCSEs; you could organise your curriculum to allow...

#Tom Sherrington #Robert Coe #Amanda Spielman #Jack Marwoood

Do you need a research champion in your school?

Sep 08, 2014 | Category: Featured

If you haven't read this great article by Carl Hendricks, Director of Research at Wellington College, on the need for 'research champions in schools, you should. In it Hendricks persuasively sets out...

#Tom Sherrington #Robert Coe #Carl Hendricks

An inconvenient truth? The surplus model of school improvement

Feb 23, 2014 | Category: leadership

Schools often seem to be run on a 'deficit model': "this attributes scepticism or hostility to a lack of understanding, resulting from a lack of information. It is associated with a division between '...

#Dylan Wiliam #school improvement #John Tomsett #Tom Sherrington #Liam Collins #accountability #Chris Moyse

Practical differentiation: high expectations and the art of making mistakes

Feb 01, 2014 | Category: Featured

Differentiation? I hate the word as I hate Hell, all ludicrous bureaucracy, and thee!Er... Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet Differentiation is one of the darkest arts in teaching. The generally accepted...

#Ofsted #Dylan Wiliam #differentiation #marking #Tom Sherrington #success criteria

Some reviews of The Secret of Literacy

Jan 18, 2014 | Category: literacy

To further whet your appetite for my forthcoming book and in the spirit of shameless self-promotion, I thought I'd share a couple of pre-release reviews. (Just in case you weren't aware, it's out on 3...

#Alex Quigley #Tom Sherrington #The Secret of Literacy

Awards Season 2013 - my votes in the Edublog Awards

Dec 07, 2013 | Category: blogging

It's that time again. The rhythm of the year inevitably reaches a staccato climax as the Edublog Awards, or Eddies, trundle laboriously into view. And happily the voting process appears much less flaw...

#edublog awards #Old Andrew #Tom Sherrington #Laura McInerney

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

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

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