Archive
The case against Power Point as means of implementing curriculum
Mar 13, 2022 |
Category: curriculum
First things first: I have nothing against PowerPoint. As means for displaying visual information it definitely has its merits. I have no issues with teachers using slides to share pictures, diagrams...
Is curriculum all that?
Sep 24, 2021 |
Category: curriculum
Over the past few years we've all been putting a lot of thought and energy into trying to improve our specification of what we want students to learn and, whilst there have been some unfortunate conse...
Are Ofsted punishing disadvantaged children by penalising three-year GCSE courses?
Jan 14, 2020 |
Category: curriculum
Is a broad and balanced curriculum "middle class"?According to an article published in The Times, Sir Daniel Moynihan, CEO of the Harris Federation, has described Ofsted's new inspection framework as...
Where we're getting curriculum wrong Part 2: Powerful knowledge
Dec 12, 2019 |
Category: curriculum
In part 1 of this blog series I discussed the importance of cultural capital, where we might be getting it wrong, what it consists of, and how to resolve the problem of 'dead white men'.
Where we're...
Where we're getting curriculum wrong Part 1: Cultural capital
Dec 11, 2019 |
Category: curriculum
Where we're getting 'cultural capital' wrong
The concept of 'cultural capital' is increasingly on the agenda in the schools I visit. No doubt this is in large part down to Ofsted. The latest inspectio...
How do we know pupils are making progress? Part 2: The curriculum
Mar 24, 2019 |
Category: curriculum
In my last post, I set out the problems with making predictions about students' progress by drawing a 'flight path' between KS2 and KS4. Instead, I will argue, we should address three interlinked aspe...
Do children succeed despite or because of what we do?
Dec 03, 2018 |
Category: curriculum
One of the most beguiling assumptions in teaching is that children succeed in school because of what schools and teachers do. We feel this to be true because we're acutely aware of all the things we'v...
Breadth trumps depth
Dec 02, 2018 |
Category: curriculum
According to Teacher Tapp, 56% of teachers reckon their schools start GCSE courses at some point during Year 9.Part of the justification for this approach is that Key Stage 3 has sometimes had a reput...
Teaching knowledge is teaching skill
Jun 17, 2018 |
Category: curriculum
We can call everything stored in our long-term memories knowledge. All knowledge is biological - stored in the organic substance of our brains - and everything stored biologically is knowledge. If you...
Teaching to make children cleverer - Part 3
Jan 10, 2018 |
Category: curriculum
As discussed in Part 1 of this series of posts, it seems probable that the best way to use education to increase children's cognitive capacities is to increase the quantity and the quality of what the...
Categories
Tags
Ofsted (62)
Dylan Wiliam (56)
John Hattie (31)
Robert Bjork (29)
marking (27)
feedback (23)
Daniel Willingham (22)
Robert Coe (20)
Carol Dweck (18)
knowledge (17)
lesson observation (16)
Daisy Christodoulou (16)
AfL (16)
Growth mindset (15)
Phil Beadle (13)
Making Kids Cleverer (13)
Graham Nuthall (13)
Sir Michael Wilshaw (13)
SOLO taxonomy (13)
Reading (13)