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On report

Aug 20, 2016 | Category: behaviour

Most of the schools I've taught in have operated some sort of 'on report' system for poorly behaved students. The idea is said poor behaved student presents his or her report card to teachers at the b...

#report cards

Five things every new teacher needs to know about behaviour management

Aug 19, 2016 | Category: behaviour

Managing students' behaviour can be the most terrifying aspect of becoming a teacher. Although it's the nightmare scenarios of being told to eff off on your first day, or having a chair hurled at your...

#behaviour management

Should students be punished for poor behaviour?

Aug 18, 2016 | Category: behaviour

The following blog was written for Teachers Register - the online solution to supply teaching. Punishment is a bit of a dirty word for many teachers. There often seems to be a presumption that childre...

#BF Skinner #rewards and sanctions

Praise for #PsychBook

Aug 13, 2016 | Category: Featured

My new book, co-written with the quite marvellous Nick Rose, has landed. What Every Teacher Needs to Know About Psychology is a whistle-stop tour of what we consider to be the most useful and importan...

What do new teachers need to know about behaviour management?

Jul 26, 2016 | Category: behaviour

Full disclosure: this article appeared first on the Teachers Register blog. Teachers Register is an online solution for schools needing supply teachers without wanting the hassle of going through a su...

#PGCE #behaviour management #ITT

Developing expertise #5 Explore connections

Jul 20, 2016 | Category: Featured

This is the fifth post in this series detailing ways teachers might go about training their intuition in order to make better judgements and acquire real expertise. You can read the previous posts her...

Robert Coe's foreword for #PsychBook

Jul 19, 2016 | Category: psychology

Right. It's done. What Every Teacher Needs to Know About Psychology is off to the printers tomorrow and should be available in the next few weeks.It's always a tense time when what you've written is e...

#Robert Coe #PsychBook

What is the Phonics Screening Check for?

Jul 17, 2016 | Category: reading

In case you don't know, the Phonics Screening Check (PSC) is a test given to 5-6 year olds at the end of Year 1 in order to establish whether pupils are able to phonically decode to an appropriate sta...

#Phonics Screening Check

When assessment fails

Jul 12, 2016 | Category: assessment

I wrote yesterday about the distinctions between assessment and feedback. This sparked some interesting comment which I want to explore here. I posted a diagram which Nick Rose and I designed for our...

#Dylan Wiliam #reliability #Daniel Koretz #validiity

Feedback and assessment are not the same

Jul 11, 2016 | Category: assessment

You don't figure out how fat a pig is by feeding it. Greg Ashman At the sharp end of education, assessment and feedback are often, unhelpfully, conflated. This has been compounded by the language we u...

#feedback #reliability #validity