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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

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NB: This post does no longer represents my latest thinking.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

Of cabbages, round tables and kings

Nov 03, 2012 | Category: leadership

Back in the day King Arthur had a problem. Bickering barons made a great deal of fuss about who was the biggest cheese. When they sat down together for a friendly chat things soon came to head becaus...

#Ofsted #Exams #Headteachers' Roundtable #King Arthur

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

Myths: what Ofsted want

Mar 17, 2012 | Category: English

With galling hypocrisy and seemingly no sense of irony, Ofsted have released their latest subject report for English snappily titled, Moving English Forward. The report is a step by step guide on how...

#Ofsted #lesson observations #Gove

Who inspects the inspectors?

Feb 05, 2012 | Category: Featured

Are Ofsted fit for purpose?This week Dylan Wiliam threw a wet leather gauntlet in the face of monsieur d'Ofsted, saying, "Ofsted do not know good teaching when they see it”.If this is true (and how wo...

#Ofsted #Dylan Wiliam #Sir Michael Wilshaw #Daisy Christodolou #ER #TES

How to subvert target grades

Jan 15, 2012 | Category: assessment

Target grades are good aren't they? They must be otherwise why would Ofsted be so damn keen on them. Consider this: how would Monsieur d'Ofsted respond when asking an unsuspecting student in your clas...

#Ofsted #formative assessment #Dylan Wiliam #grading

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

To set or not to set?

Nov 26, 2011 | Category: Featured

I feel genuinely torn about this. On the one hand I am aware that there really isn't any solid research evidence that setting (or streaming) has much effect on students' attainment and some evidence w...

#Ofsted #Eric Bolton #Fearghal Kelly #mixed ability #setting #streaming