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Back to School Part 4: Planning

Aug 23, 2014 | Category: Featured

This series of #backtoschool blogs summarises much of my thinking as it’s developed over the past few years and is aimed at new or recently qualified teachers. Each area has been distilled to 5 ‘top t...

#Dylan Wiliam #Daniel Willingham #John Tomsett #Lee Donaghy #planning #back to school

What does John Hattie think about education?

Aug 22, 2014 | Category: Featured

If you don't yet know, BBC Radio 4 have lined up a series of 8 interviews with the leading lights of the education world. In the second programme of the series, Sarah Montague interviews professor Joh...

#John Hattie

Back to school Part 2: Relationships

Aug 20, 2014 | Category: Featured

#back to school #memory palace #The Benjamin Franklin Effect

Ofsted's new Inspection Handbook - a cause for celebration

Jul 30, 2014 | Category: Featured

As detailed by Old Andrew here, I attended a meeting with the new National Director for Schools Policy, Sean Harford in Birmingham on Friday 25th July. This had followed a series of telephone calls an...

#Ofsted #Old Andrew #Sean Harford #Inspection Handbook

Grit and growth: who's to blame for low achievement?

Jul 10, 2014 | Category: Featured

I’ve recently read a couple of interesting articles which question the efficacy of the research of Carol Dweck (Mindset) and Angela Duckworth (Grit). The complaint is that if we attribute an individua...

#Carol Dweck #Cristina Milos #Joe Bower #Growth mindset #Grit #Angela Duckworth #Gary Walsh

Can we trust the evidence of our own eyes?

Aug 08, 2014 | Category: Featured

Unwisely I got embroiled in an online discussion this morning on the merits of research versus the experience of seeing stuff work with our own eyes. The contention is that although research may have...

#Katherine Schultz #blind spots

Slow Writing eBook - contributions wanted

Jul 31, 2014 | Category: Featured

Hey all!In a flush of Twitter inspired enthusiasm, @redgirob, @bryngoodman and I have come up with a crazy idea. What if we put together a crowd sourced, not for profit eBook detailing the various use...

#Slow Writing

Some thoughts on Edtech and the Sunk Cost Fallacy

Jul 29, 2014 | Category: Featured

Every man in the journey of life takes … advantage of the ignorance of his fellow travellers, disguises himself in counterfeited merit, and hears those praises with complacency which his conscience r...

My impatience with some Ofsted inspectors

Jul 24, 2014 | Category: Featured

We hope we are transparent and honest. I am very keen that the people we inspect have confidence in the quality of our inspections and the quality of our inspectors. I believe the quality of inspecti...

#Ofsted #Sir Michael Wilshaw #Mike Cladingbowl #Sean Harford

You can’t teach an old teacher new tricks…so sack them.

Jul 23, 2014 | Category: Featured

I rarely reblog posts on my site, but in this case I wanted to make an exception for two (make that three) reasons:1. This is @cazzbooth's inaugural post I'd like to do my 'umble best to help her buil...

#lesson observation