A blog since 2011 — thinking out loud about professional learning, school improvement, and what AI means for classrooms.
Performance management is a slightly threatening phrase. I pretty much associate it with the following things: Am I still competent (i.e. can I prove that nobody needs to…
Last night I posed a question on twitter: @informed_edu: Anyone care to share some good tips for keeping kids on task when they’re doing work from a textbook/worksheet?…
It’s been fascinating to meet several of the people who I have been tweeting with recently. Every one of them has given me some really interesting insights in…
This fascinating snippet from the 2009 PISA report should surely have had higher profile? “High-performing countries are also those whose students generally know how to summarise information. Across…
I have to share a fantastic Infographic created by GOOD.is: Interesting reading, engagingly displayed.
This week I ran the planning meeting of my professional learning group. The idea was to bring together a group of teachers (in this case the teachers of…
A first draft of an introductory speech my ‘dream’ minister for education would make. What do you think? Ladies and Gentlemen, I would firstly like to thank the…
Many thanks to Alex Bellars (@bellaale) who pointed me to the most interest German national education/curriculum survey conducted in German in March, where everyone was invited to give…
@Thanks2Teachers: #Teachers: As long as our schools are geared to THE TEST, we’ll be factory workers turning out standardized products. RESIST! The above tweet has been doing the…
Thanks to @OldAndrewUK I learned the meaning of “Ad hominem” the other day: “an attempt to link the validity of a premise to a characteristic or belief of…