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Icebergs, taking risks & being outstanding

Feb 11, 2013 | Category: Featured

How do we recognise a great teacher, a great lesson or great teaching and learning? How do we know what we're seeing is outstanding?The sad truth is that often observers don't (or can't) see the wood...

#risks #failure #Zoe Elder #Dylan Wiliam #John Hattie #Phil Beadle #Sir Michael Wilshaw #learning loop #icebergs #Outstanding teaching & learning #Thomas Edison

Work scrutiny - What's the point of marking books?

Jan 26, 2013 | Category: assessment

Opportunity makes a thief. – Francis Bacon I wrote recently about the differences between marking and feedback. In brief, and contrary to popular wisdom, they are not the same thing; feedback is uni...

#marking

Developing oracy: it's talkin' time!

Dec 29, 2012 | Category: learning

Talk is the sea upon which all else floats ~ James Britton, Language and Learning, 1970 Students spend a lot of talking, don't they? Everyone can speak, so why would we want to waste valuable time tea...

#questioning #Geoff Barton #IRE #John Sayers #oracy #Robin Alexander #Thought Stems

Pedagoo London presentation

Mar 08, 2013 | Category: Featured

Last weekend I was invited to Pedagoo London at the Institute of Education to provoke all and sundry with my rambling thoughts on how teachers can behave in lessons if they want to be judged 'outstand...

#pedagoo

Why do so many teachers leave teaching?

Feb 27, 2013 | Category: Featured

Apparently 50% of teachers leave the profession within their first 5 years.I've heard this statistic bandied about for quite a while, and while you can argue the exact figure back and forth a bit (s...

#Michael Gove #NQT #Teach First

The effect of affect

Feb 24, 2013 | Category: learning

For those of us fortunate enough to be literate, the whole idea of Literacy in schools can seem bewilderingly over complicated. Something that comes to us as naturally as breathing can hardly require...

#Growth mindset #the Matthew Effect #cognitive psychology #Hugo Kerr #Robert MacFarlane

The problem with progress Part 3: Designing lessons for learning

Feb 16, 2013 | Category: Featured

Over my last couple of posts I've suggested that you can't see learning in lessons, you can only infer it from students' performance. This means that as a teacher, when you get students to respond to...

#Daniel Willingham #Graham Nuthall #hinge questions #progress #Robert Bjork #concept maps

The problem with progress Part 2: Designing a curriculum for learning

Feb 14, 2013 | Category: Featured

Can progress be both rapid and sustained? We start out with the aim of making the important measurable and end up making only the measurable important.Dylan Wiliam [caption id="attachment_6068" align=...

#Will Thalheimer #Graham Nuthall #Maurice Holt #progress #Robert Bjork #interleaving #Slow Education #Spaced learning

The problem with progress Part 1: learning vs performance

Feb 12, 2013 | Category: Featured

What's more important? Learning or progress?[caption id="attachment_2759" align="alignleft" width="150"] Take that progress! We want learning[/caption]We've known since the publication of Ofsted's Mov...

#Ofsted #Dylan Wiliam #Kev Bartle #liminality #progress #Robert Bjork

Houston, we have influence: The Top 100 education blogs

Feb 04, 2013 | Category: Featured

I started writing this blog on the 11th July 2011 with the intention of recording all the thoughts I've always had about teaching and learning. In the past I'd amaze myself with how what seemed profou...

#blogging #Oliver Quinlan #Onalytica #Richard Taylor #Top 100 Education Blogs