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Evidence and disadvantage: How useful is the EEF Toolkit?

Feb 26, 2017 | Category: research

Although everyone's education is important, the education of disadvantaged students is, arguably, of much greater importance than that of students from more advantaged backgrounds. The more privileged...

#learning styles #John Tomsett #Education Endowment Foundation #Greg Ashman #ED Hirsch Jr #Sir Kevan Collins

What I know about whether 'no excuses' behaviour systems work

Apr 25, 2016 | Category: behaviour

I read John Tomsett's account of his speech at Michaela School's Debate on 23rd April on why 'no excuses' behaviour systems don't work with great interest. As a speech it is well researched, well argu...

#John Tomsett #Michaela School #no excuses

This much I know about John Tomsett's book

Jun 22, 2015 | Category: reflection

I remember reading John's first blog when it appeared in June 2012. Since then his posts have been consistently wise and deeply human. Even when he bangs on about golf, fishing or The Clash. Until I r...

#Sir Ken Robinson #John Tomsett #This Much I Know About Love Over Fear

20 psychological principles for teachers #14 Relationships

Jun 22, 2015 | Category: psychology

This is the second of three posts examining social context, interpersonal relationships, and emotional well-being and the extent to which they are important to learning. This is #14 in my series on th...

#John Tomsett #relationships

Back to School Part 4: Planning

Aug 23, 2014 | Category: Featured

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...

#Dylan Wiliam #Daniel Willingham #John Tomsett #Lee Donaghy #planning #back to school

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

Ask not what's wrong with Twitter...

Sep 29, 2013 | Category: blogging

And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou s...

#Twitter #John Tomsett

Are all difficulties desirable?

Oct 05, 2013 | Category: Featured

I was aghast to read an extract from Malcolm Gladwell's new book, David And Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits And The Art Of Battling Giants in The Guardian yesterday. Not because it's bad, but because it's...

#stress #Malcolm Gladwell #John Tomsett #Robert Bjork #desirable difficulties #dyslexia #David and Goliath

So, what IS the point of INSET days?

Jan 06, 2013 | Category: training

Every teacher needs to improve, not because they are not good enough, but because they can be even better. Dylan Wiliam, keynote to SSAT conference, December 2012 Back in August 2011, long before I ev...

#Ian Gilbert #Dylan Wiliam #INSET #John Tomsett #CPD

Planning a 'perfect' lesson

Jun 30, 2012 | Category: training

How long does a decent lesson take to plan? Ofsted have recently made clear that they're not interested in over complicated lesson plans noting that "excessive detail within plans causes teachers to l...

#Ofsted #Phil Beadle #John Tomsett #Lesson planning #checklists #Michael Fullan #random lesson generators