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Should we give teachers the 'benefit of the doubt'?

Mar 03, 2017 | Category: leadership

Earlier in the week, Schools Minister, Lord Nash announced that schools should be more like businesses and jettison underperforming staff. According to this TES report he's reported to have said, "“I...

#Dylan Wiliam #intelligent accountability #Lord Nash

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

An inconvenient truth? The surplus model of school improvement

Feb 23, 2014 | Category: leadership

Schools often seem to be run on a 'deficit model': "this attributes scepticism or hostility to a lack of understanding, resulting from a lack of information. It is associated with a division between '...

#Dylan Wiliam #school improvement #John Tomsett #Tom Sherrington #Liam Collins #accountability #Chris Moyse

Why can't we tell a good teacher through lesson observations?

Aug 23, 2013 | Category: leadership

No teacher is so good - or so bad - that he or she cannot improve. Dylan Wiliam The English education system is obsessed with ascertaining the quality of teachers. And what with the great and the good...

#lesson observations #Dylan Wiliam #Graham Nuthall

A model lesson? Part 1: routines vs gimmicks

Sep 08, 2013 | Category: leadership

It's been a busy week this week. What with starting at a new school, getting up before 5 to drive two hours on Monday morning, living an Alan Partridge-esque existence in a particularly horrific Trave...

#Dylan Wiliam #questioning #Pose Pause Pounce Bounce #Kris Boulton #Doug Lemov #bell work #routines

How not to improve a school

Apr 21, 2012 | Category: leadership

Everyone agrees that 'lasting and sustaining improvement in student outcomes' is a good thing and there's little doubt that we should also seek to narrow the gap in achievement between different group...

#Dylan Wiliam #John Hattie #Ben Levin #school improvement #Sutton Trust