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Should we support the College of Teaching?

Feb 02, 2015 | Category: Featured

I'd love to be able to provide my unequivocal support for the proposed College of Teaching. Obviously I'm fully in favour of professionalising teaching, but while I'm convinced of the good intentions...

#College of Teaching

Some suggested New Year's resolutions

Jan 01, 2015 | Category: Featured

For I am full of spirit and resolve to meet all perils very constantly. Shakespeare, Julius Caesar Having read this post from Jo Facer (@readingthebooks), I am inspired. Particularly by these...

A research journal for teachers by teachers

Jan 13, 2015 | Category: Featured

What difference does education research make to teachers? Precious little. Thousands of papers are published every year and very little changes in classrooms. Recent attempts by the Education Endowmen...

#Glen Gilchrist #Kickstarter

The Unit of Education

Jan 08, 2015 | Category: Featured

If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it.Lord Kelvin A lot of education research is an attempt to measure the effects of teaching (or teachers) on learning (or pupils.) But is this actually pos...

#Dylan Wiliam #John Hattie #effect sizes #Robert Coe #research #Bloom

Are children better than adults?

Jan 04, 2015 | Category: Featured

There is no sinner like a young saint.Aphra Behn I just read this post on why Teaching is Wonderful and while teaching is wonderful (if astonishingly gruelling) I take issue with the argument present...

#behaviour #nature

Thinking with and about

Dec 30, 2014 | Category: Featured

There are mighty few people who think what they think they think. Robert Henri How we think is astonishingly complex and I don't want to pretend I have any real understanding of the processes in...

A review of 2014

Dec 28, 2014 | Category: Featured

I wrote 125 posts in 2014 bringing the running total to 336 posts. Here are the ten most popular this year: Why do so many teachers leave teaching? (February 2013) The Cult of Outstanding™: the pro...

#blogging

New book: What if everything you know about education is wrong?

Dec 17, 2014 | Category: Featured

I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken. - Oliver Cromwell I haven't been posting much lately but that's not to say I haven't been busy writing. I'm delighted to...

The Secret of Numeracy (across the curriculum)

Dec 10, 2014 | Category: Featured

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns… The mathematician’s patterns, like the painter’s or the poet’s must be beautiful; the ideas like the colours or the words, must fit t...

#numeracy

Turning the tanker: lesson grading

Oct 29, 2014 | Category: Featured

I spent a good part of the past year or so railing against the injustices of lesson grading: My impatience with some Ofsted inspectors 24th July 2014 Ofsted: The end of the (lesson grading) affair 4th...