Thinking out loud about professional learning, school improvement, and what AI means for classrooms.
Many schools have tracking systems set up in their Management Information Systems. These can be a real cause of stress when blunt, inaccurate information is generated leading to…
I’ve just finished reading Sir Michael Barber’s fascinating book Instruction to Deliver, hot on the heels of the most interesting “Learning by Doing” by DuFour et. al. Barber…
If you’ve ever wanted to know my general interests and philosophy, here’s a Wordle of my most common Tweeted terms. Created from my TweetStats cloud.
I’ve just returned from a very interesting meeting at the GTCE on pedagogy, innovation, assessment and pupil participation. There was a really interesting mix of people there, with…
Effective teaching is the hot topic at the moment, and with such fantastic discussions such as those at purpose/ed and the interesting (although controversial) Measures Of Effective Teaching…
Every school is passionate about getting their students to succeed, and some are more successful at encouraging, nurturing and supporting than others. For me there seem to be…
I’ve heard of teachers taking offence at Jamie Oliver’s new TV show, about the British Humanist Association’s Census Campaign, and about a variety of political points. Surely there…
There seem to be so many people talking about school benchmarking in the USA, but not so much in the UK. I have a feeling that it would…
Standards of achievement and behaviour in schools take constant and relentless effort to maintain. Every member of staff and every student has a duty to act in the…
So here’s quite a bold claim from the wonderful article Humor, Analogy, and Metaphor: H.A.M. it up in Teaching: …use of metaphors and other strategies can “increase retention…