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Is listening really passive?

Jun 30, 2014 | Category: learning

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it. David Hockney Like many others, I got very excited to see this published on the Ofsted website back in February: Inspectors must not...

#Ofsted #listening #active #ADHD #passive

The Cult of Outstanding™: the problem with 'outstanding' lessons

Jan 16, 2014 | Category: learning

First of all I need to come clean. Up until pretty recently I was a fully paid up member of the Cult of Outstanding™. Last January I considered myself to be a teacher at the height of my powers. In th...

#Ofsted #lesson observations #Cristina Milos #outstanding lessons #Robert Bjork

Don't trust your gut: a little bit more on the problem with grading lessons

Jan 13, 2014 | Category: learning

This evening, there will be debate on the role lesson observation in England's schools with such educational luminaries as Professor Robert Coe, David Weston (the man behind the Teacher Development Tr...

#Ofsted #Rober Bjork #lesson observation #Robert Coe #Tristan Hunt

Anything goes: Is there a right way to teach?

Oct 20, 2013 | Category: learning

There's nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so.Shakespeare, Hamlet I read Joe Kirby's recent post on cognitive bias with interest because I've been pursuing a very similar line of enquiry. What...

#Ofsted #Sir Michael Wilshaw #cognitive bias #David Mcraney

Outstanding teaching & learning: missed opportunities and marginal gains

Oct 14, 2012 | Category: learning

I work at an 'outstanding' school where the teaching and learning is 'good'. As such we are squarely in Wilshaw's sights and almost certainly due an inspection at some point this year. We were last in...

#Ofsted #Zoe Elder #Sir Michael Wilshaw #Dave Brailsford #marginal gains

Is there a right way to teach?

Nov 24, 2012 | Category: learning

It’s become a trite and hackneyed truism that if they’re not learning you’re just talking. We’re all clear that teaching only happens when the little tinkers manage to make some sort of progress – pre...

#Ofsted #Hattie #direct instruction #Wilshaw

Go with the flow: the 2 minute lesson plan

Nov 17, 2012 | Category: learning

NB: This post does no longer represents my latest thinking. I've updated my approach to planning here.Like all teachers, my main aim in life is to run, whooping, out of the school gates by 3 o’clock....

#Ofsted #Ross McGill #John Tomsett #Lesson planning #Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The Matthew Effect - why literacy is so important

Sep 30, 2012 | Category: learning

Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them.Matthew 13:12 In the world of the 2012 Ofsted framework very few sch...

#Ofsted #literacy #spelling #Reading #writing #Geoff Barton #the Matthew Effect

Why aren't we supposed to teach anymore?

Nov 28, 2011 | Category: learning

[caption id="attachment_725" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Teacher committing the cardinal sin of teaching from the front"][/caption] I read this comment on the Guardian Teacher Network recen...

#Ofsted #Dylan Wiliam #John Hattie #Guardian Teacher Network #Pose Pause Pounce Bounce #Ross McGill