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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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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