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#BackToSchool - free webinars

Aug 26, 2020 | Category: Featured

Over the next few weeks I'll be hosting a series of five 'back to school' webinars on a range to topics aimed at early career teachers, those with a mentoring responsibility and anyone who simply feel...

Learning Spy Academy: the story so far...

Jul 24, 2020 | Category: Webinars

A little over a month ago I streamed my first ever webinar with the technical support of B&T Education.I decided right from the outset that I wanted to make the content free to anyone who wanted it bu...

Interview on Shoreditch radio

Jun 23, 2020 | Category: Featured

Last week I was interviewed by Liam Davis on Shoreditch Radio about why I became a teacher, what got me into writing, the ideas in some of my books and the effects of Covid-19 on education.You can lis...

Five things new school leaders need to know

Jun 22, 2020 | Category: leadership

1. The primary role of school leadership is to remove extraneous demands on teachers so that they can focus on planning and teaching the very best curriculum possible.If you're doing anything that int...

Q&A: Five Things Every Teacher Needs to Know about Reading

Jun 21, 2020 | Category: reading

If you missed it, here's a link to the presentation I gave in my webinar on Five Things Every Teacher Needs to Know about Reading.There were a number of question that I didn't have time to answer duri...

#Reading

Webinar: Five things every teacher needs to know about writing

Jun 20, 2020 | Category: Webinars

Last Thursday's inaugural webinar, 'Five things every teacher needs to know about reading,' was, on the whole, a great success. We sold out 1000 tickets and about 500 people showed up on the night. Th...

#writing #Webinars

Introducing... The Learning Spy Academy

Jun 12, 2020 | Category: Featured

The last few months have gone by in a daze. The world seems to have changed - maybe permanently - and my primary means of making a living has vanished. Without knowing how - or if - it's going to work...

Constructivism is not a pedagogy

Jun 03, 2020 | Category: literacy

An article by Sarah Bergsen, Erik Meester, Paul Kirschner and Anna BosmanSo-called ‘educational innovations’ in which the teacher assumes the role of 'facilitator, mentor or coach' do not appear to be...

GCSE reform: a modest proposal

May 30, 2020 | Category: assessment

The pandemic has cast many assumptions about how education could or should unfold into sharp relief. Like many others, I've been wondering about the positives we might find in our current situation an...

#GCSEs #accountability #Becky Allen

Why we need to read aloud

May 27, 2020 | Category: reading

Here is the recording of webinar I gave for #LDeduchat this week on 'Why we need to read aloud'. The prerecorded presentation lasts for about 25 mins with the rest of the time given over to Q&A.If you...

#Reading #following along