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Why 'triple marking' is wrong (and not my fault)

Nov 29, 2014 | Category: leadership

You can't blame celebrity edubloggers for teachers' unreasonable workloads - Albert Einstein In his indefatigable efforts to get schools and teachers to recognise that much of what is done in the name...

#Ofsted #marking #Triple impact marking #Mike Cladingbowl #workload

What I've learned about trust from arguing about driving

Nov 28, 2014 | Category: leadership

Those who trust us educate us. - George Eliot Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. - Bertrand Russell The...

#trust #driving #improvement

Undermining teachers is easy

Jan 29, 2015 | Category: leadership

Your views are out of date, David and don't work, just expecting pupils to behave.Paul Garvey, Education consultantThere are two schools in every school: the school of the high-status staff member, wi...

#behaviour

Do we really have a growth mindset?

Jan 05, 2015 | Category: leadership

The ladder of life is full of splinters, but they always prick the hardest when we’re sliding down. Samuel Clemens I spoke at a Growth Mindset conference with Olympian and sports journalist Matt...

#failure #Growth mindset #Matthew Syed

What if we started trusting teachers?

Nov 22, 2014 | Category: leadership

Who would not rather trust and be deceived? - Eliza Cook The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him. - Henry Lewis Stimson I've been out of the classroom for just under a year now. In...

#Ofsted #accountability #surplus model #Grace Murray Hopper #trust

Teacher appraisal and the fundamental attribution error

Nov 09, 2014 | Category: leadership

As favour and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before. Jean de La Bruyère You know that lad in Year 9 who gives you constant...

#Sutton Trust #appraisal #fundamental attribution error

The surplus model of school improvement

Oct 15, 2014 | Category: leadership

As teachers we are sometimes guilty of assuming that all would be well if only children behaved better and worked harder. This is basically sound; everything would be better if kids did what was in th...

#school improvement #deficit model #surplus model

Back to school Part 1: Routines

Aug 19, 2014 | Category: leadership

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...

#behaviour #back to school

Perverse incentives and how to counter them

Jun 09, 2014 | Category: leadership

Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.Nikita Khrushchev Back in the good old days when the great unwashed could simply be shipped off to the colonies with nary a second...

#Ofsted #Mike Cladingbowl #Chip and Dan Heath #perverse incentives #Pupil Premium #Rolf Dobrelli

This is what I think

May 14, 2014 | Category: leadership

I love a good aphorism, and I also like lists. I keep being asked what I think about stuff so, in the spirit of clarity, here's a list of some of the things I think about education:Behaviour Gettin...