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Livy living below the line

Apr 28, 2013 | Category: Featured

It's been some time since my last post and, sadly perhaps, this one has little to do with education. Instead it's a plea for support. From today Rosie and I along with our daughters (Olivia, aged 9 an...

#Living below the line

Mind your language - a language based approach to pedagogy

Mar 29, 2013 | Category: Featured

[caption id="attachment_3198" align="alignleft" width="250"] The most astonishing example of hyperbole ever![/caption]As the chap heading up Literacy at my school, I've been doing a lot of reading and...

#Genre Pedagogy #Jim Martin #Lee Donaghy #Michael Halliday #Park View School #Pauline Gibbons

Building evidence into education

Mar 14, 2013 | Category: Featured

[caption id="attachment_3070" align="alignleft" width="300"] Does he look happy?[/caption]Today I got to rub shoulders with the great and the good at Bethnal Green Academy (second most improved school...

#Ben Goldacre #Teach First #evidence based education #randomised trials

The Grand Unified Theory of Mastery

Mar 10, 2013 | Category: Featured

Is this all you need to know about motivation, learning and professional development? No, probably not. But, it is a beguilingly complete way of tying together many of the theories which have baffled...

#deliberate practice #Growth mindset #Flow #Grit #Helsinki Bus Station Theory #talent

Grit vs Flow - what's better for learning?

Mar 04, 2013 | Category: Featured

[caption id="attachment_2963" align="alignleft" width="300"] At least it wasn't Brain Gym![/caption] Bugger! Having just put up a new classroom display exhorting the benefits of 'flow' and using the i...

#Tom Bennett #Malcolm Gladwell #Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi #Alex Quigley #Cal Newport

A reader's view on the teaching profession

Feb 28, 2013 | Category: Featured

This post was sent to me in response to yesterday's post by an NQT considering leaving teaching and wishing to remain anonymous. Why do so many teachers leave the profession? About me: I am 26 next we...

#coaching #Teaching

Icebergs, taking risks & being outstanding

Feb 11, 2013 | Category: Featured

How do we recognise a great teacher, a great lesson or great teaching and learning? How do we know what we're seeing is outstanding?The sad truth is that often observers don't (or can't) see the wood...

#risks #failure #Zoe Elder #Dylan Wiliam #John Hattie #Phil Beadle #Sir Michael Wilshaw #learning loop #icebergs #Outstanding teaching & learning #Thomas Edison

Pedagoo London presentation

Mar 08, 2013 | Category: Featured

Last weekend I was invited to Pedagoo London at the Institute of Education to provoke all and sundry with my rambling thoughts on how teachers can behave in lessons if they want to be judged 'outstand...

#pedagoo

Why do so many teachers leave teaching?

Feb 27, 2013 | Category: Featured

Apparently 50% of teachers leave the profession within their first 5 years.I've heard this statistic bandied about for quite a while, and while you can argue the exact figure back and forth a bit (s...

#Michael Gove #NQT #Teach First

The problem with progress Part 3: Designing lessons for learning

Feb 16, 2013 | Category: Featured

Over my last couple of posts I've suggested that you can't see learning in lessons, you can only infer it from students' performance. This means that as a teacher, when you get students to respond to...

#Daniel Willingham #Graham Nuthall #hinge questions #progress #Robert Bjork #concept maps