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"Works for me!" The problem with teachers' judgement

Oct 11, 2015 | Category: leadership

It is with our judgments as with our watches: no two go just alike, yet each believes his own. Alexander Pope One of the difficulties inherent in challenging teachers' judgments is that when those...

#Daniel Kahneman #intelligent accountability

What every teacher needs to know about '21st-Century learning'

Oct 09, 2015 | Category: Featured

Here's my column in this month's Teach Secondary magazine which is packed full of stuff much better than my meagre scrawlings so you'd be well advised to subscribe. You’ve seen Shift Happens, right?...

#Teach Secondary

A decreased focus on facts & knowledge won't help either

Sep 21, 2015 | Category: Featured

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another. - Joseph Addison The TES reports today that “A leading independent school headmaster has warned that the greater focus...

#knowledge #TES #21st Century Learning

What is 'transfer' and is it important?

Sep 17, 2015 | Category: learning

Very kindly, Greg Ashman posted his thoughts on #WrongBook on his site yesterday - if you haven't seen his 'review' you can find it here. I really like both the style and the substance of Greg's piece...

#Robert Bjork #transfer #Greg Ashman

Why sacrificing chickens will not help us evaluate teachers' performance

Sep 16, 2015 | Category: leadership

Intellectually, philosophically, morally, the argument over whether teachers' performance should be evaluated by grading their teaching by means of a lesson observation has been won. Ofsted have accep...

#lesson grading

How can we teach problem solving?

Oct 18, 2015 | Category: Featured

It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.G. K. Chesterton In an uncertain future, the ability to solve novel problems will become increasingly in demand. Now,...

#George Polya #problem-solving

Assessment: evolution vs. design

Oct 13, 2015 | Category: research

Optimization hinders evolution.Alan J. Perlis As we all know, the DfE decided to ditch National Curriculum levels from September 2014 without plans for a replacement. Some have reacted to this with...

#Dylan Wiliam #randomised trials #assessment #Matthew Syed #evolution #Tim Oates #Unilever

Equality is unfair

Oct 08, 2015 | Category: leadership

Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.Erich Fromm In my firs...

#Daniel Pink #fairness #equality #Steve Moore

The melody of education: what should we be accountable for?

Oct 06, 2015 | Category: leadership

Not every end is a goal. The end of a melody is not its goal; but nonetheless, if the melody had not reached its end, it would not have reached its goal. A parable.Nietzsche This is the third in...

#accountability #Eric Kalenze #purpose of education

#researchED comes to Swindon

Oct 06, 2015 | Category: research

London, Sydney, New York, Glasgow and now... Swindon.At long last Tom Bennett's moveable, grassroots, edu-research feast finally pitches up in the heart of Wiltshire and my new home from home, Swindon...

#researchED