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Why 'triple marking' is wrong (and not my fault)

Nov 29, 2014 | Category: leadership

You can't blame celebrity edubloggers for teachers' unreasonable workloads - Albert Einstein In his indefatigable efforts to get schools and teachers to recognise that much of what is done in the name...

#Ofsted #marking #Triple impact marking #Mike Cladingbowl #workload

What I've learned about trust from arguing about driving

Nov 28, 2014 | Category: leadership

Those who trust us educate us. - George Eliot Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. - Bertrand Russell The...

#trust #driving #improvement

Undermining teachers is easy

Jan 29, 2015 | Category: leadership

Your views are out of date, David and don't work, just expecting pupils to behave.Paul Garvey, Education consultantThere are two schools in every school: the school of the high-status staff member, wi...

#behaviour

A defence of the fixed mindset

Jan 23, 2015 | Category: learning

The growth mindset has been so universally heralded as 'a good thing' that it's in danger of becoming one of those memes we think with rather than about. A number of commentators have been critical of...

#Carol Dweck #Growth mindset #Daniel Dennett #fixed mindset #plasticity #Star Wars

Does ADHD exist?

Jan 14, 2015 | Category: myths

One of the few things I remember agreeing with when I heard Ken Robinson talking about changing educational paradigms was his observation that diagnoses of ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disord...

#Sir Ken Robinson #ADHD #Marylin Wedge #Richard Saul

A research journal for teachers by teachers

Jan 13, 2015 | Category: Featured

What difference does education research make to teachers? Precious little. Thousands of papers are published every year and very little changes in classrooms. Recent attempts by the Education Endowmen...

#Glen Gilchrist #Kickstarter

The Unit of Education

Jan 08, 2015 | Category: Featured

If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it.Lord Kelvin A lot of education research is an attempt to measure the effects of teaching (or teachers) on learning (or pupils.) But is this actually pos...

#Dylan Wiliam #John Hattie #effect sizes #Robert Coe #research #Bloom

Do we really have a growth mindset?

Jan 05, 2015 | Category: leadership

The ladder of life is full of splinters, but they always prick the hardest when we’re sliding down. Samuel Clemens I spoke at a Growth Mindset conference with Olympian and sports journalist Matt...

#failure #Growth mindset #Matthew Syed

Are children better than adults?

Jan 04, 2015 | Category: Featured

There is no sinner like a young saint.Aphra Behn I just read this post on why Teaching is Wonderful and while teaching is wonderful (if astonishingly gruelling) I take issue with the argument present...

#behaviour #nature

Thinking with and about

Dec 30, 2014 | Category: Featured

There are mighty few people who think what they think they think. Robert Henri How we think is astonishingly complex and I don't want to pretend I have any real understanding of the processes in...