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What can education learn from aviation?

Oct 05, 2015 | Category: leadership

Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we’re so fond of it. - George Eliot Flying is a dangerous business. All sort...

#checklists #aviation #Crew Resource Management #distributed cognition

Should we learn to love our shackles?

Sep 12, 2015 | Category: leadership

"Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better." Albert Camus There's already been some pretty scathing reactions to the master plan to introduce a common curriculum and assessment system into U...

#Dylan Wiliam #assessment #curriculum #Dame Sally Coates

How do we know if a teacher's any good?

May 09, 2015 | Category: leadership

Obviously enough, not all teachers are equal. But how do we know which ones are any cop? Well, we just do, don't we? Everyone in a school community tends to know who's doing a decent job. But how do w...

#Graham Nuthall #Sutton Trust #Robert Coe #Eric Kalenze #Charlotte Danielson #Jack Marwood #Steve Higgins

Two stars and a bloody wish!

May 03, 2015 | Category: leadership

A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.Jean de La Bruyère We are held hostage by our superstitious belief in the mystical power of marking to...

#marking #two stars and a wish #www ebi

Trust, accountability and why we need them both

Apr 29, 2015 | Category: leadership

I've been thinking a lot about trust in recent months - particularly because it seems a commodity in such short supply. If, my optimistic thinking went, teachers were trusted to do a good job, then th...

#accountability #trust

A few thoughts about character education

Apr 27, 2015 | Category: leadership

The idea that schools should be educating students' character has been gathering momentum in recent years. But the once distant drums have become increasingly urgent; politicians and professors, hucks...

#character #Eric Kalenze #Greg Ashamn #Jonathan Haidt

The best case fallacy or, why we balls things up

Apr 16, 2015 | Category: leadership

OPTIMIST, n. A proponent of the doctrine that black is white. A pessimist applied to God for relief. "Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness," said God. "No," replied the petitioner,...

#Robert Conquest #Roger Scruton

What to do about workload?

Feb 07, 2015 | Category: leadership

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!Henry Ward Beecher To much fanfare in the press, the DfE has released the findings of its Workload Challenge survey. The idea is straightforward: to prevent te...

#workload

The problem with lesson planning

Feb 01, 2015 | Category: leadership

Time brings all things to pass.Aeschylus Because the curriculum is divided up into units - terms and lessons - our thinking about how to teach is constrained. The school year is sectioned into six m...

#lessons

What's it like being a new teacher?

Jan 06, 2015 | Category: leadership

I've been very fortunate to spend time with a variety of new teachers over the past few years. Whether they're on PGCE placements, NQTs, RQTs or Teach First participants they are all, without exce...

#behaviour #teacher training