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The problem with progress Part 2: Designing a curriculum for learning

Feb 14, 2013 | Category: Featured

Can progress be both rapid and sustained? We start out with the aim of making the important measurable and end up making only the measurable important.Dylan Wiliam [caption id="attachment_6068" align=...

#Will Thalheimer #Graham Nuthall #Maurice Holt #progress #Robert Bjork #interleaving #Slow Education #Spaced learning

The problem with progress Part 1: learning vs performance

Feb 12, 2013 | Category: Featured

What's more important? Learning or progress?[caption id="attachment_2759" align="alignleft" width="150"] Take that progress! We want learning[/caption]We've known since the publication of Ofsted's Mov...

#Ofsted #Dylan Wiliam #Kev Bartle #liminality #progress #Robert Bjork

Houston, we have influence: The Top 100 education blogs

Feb 04, 2013 | Category: Featured

I started writing this blog on the 11th July 2011 with the intention of recording all the thoughts I've always had about teaching and learning. In the past I'd amaze myself with how what seemed profou...

#blogging #Oliver Quinlan #Onalytica #Richard Taylor #Top 100 Education Blogs

Live Lesson Obs: Making lesson observations formative

Feb 03, 2013 | Category: Featured

You can push and prod people into something better than mediocrity, but you have to encourage excellence.David Lammy We've all experienced the dread and agony of formal lesson observations, haven't we...

#lesson observations #Phil Beadle #Clevedon School #David Lammy #Live Lesson Obs

A Universal Panacea? - my homage to Twitter

Jan 20, 2013 | Category: Featured

The number one shift in education I wish to see in my lifetime? In an effort to participate in the Blog Sync project coordinated by @Edutronic_Net I blithely signed up to write about whatever was agr...

#Twitter

A Room Of One's Own - the thin end of the staff room wedge

Oct 08, 2012 | Category: Featured

On the rare occasions I ever had cause to knock on the staff room door as the timid little chap I was back in the early 80s, a disgruntled teacher would throw it open, grumble about being disturbed, a...

#staffrooms

A review of 2012 on The Learning Spy

Dec 17, 2012 | Category: Featured

[caption id="attachment_2173" align="alignleft" width="300"] It wasn't THAT bad![/caption]Well, it's the end of another year and as the past month has seen me too drained to write anything even vaguel...

The role of the form tutor - the importance of WHY

Jul 22, 2012 | Category: Featured

Today's post is that rare beast - a guest blog by someone other than me. This should come as a welcome and refreshing change. Not only that, it's a post on a pastoral issue which is something I've alw...

#form tutor #pastoral #Sarah Ledger

Who inspects the inspectors?

Feb 05, 2012 | Category: Featured

Are Ofsted fit for purpose?This week Dylan Wiliam threw a wet leather gauntlet in the face of monsieur d'Ofsted, saying, "Ofsted do not know good teaching when they see it”.If this is true (and how wo...

#Ofsted #Dylan Wiliam #Sir Michael Wilshaw #Daisy Christodolou #ER #TES

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Dec 10, 2011 | Category: Featured

2011 has been a good year. Starting the blog has been life changing and after reading A Year in the Life of an English Teacher I've decided to take up the challenge and provide you with a smattering...

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