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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

What is learning?

Jan 08, 2012 | Category: learning

Go on, ask yourself, ask other teachers, ask some students: what is learning? It's a pretty big question isn't it? One that I might have felt hopelessly unequal to answering before reading Graham Nuth...

#Bruce Hood #De La Soul #Graham Nuthall #Pam Hook

What is good behaviour?

Jan 01, 2012 | Category: learning

There are two schools in every school: the school of the high-status staff member, with the luxury of time and authority to cushion them from the worst classes; and the school of the supply teacher a...

#behaviour #PEEL #Postman & Weingartner #Rober Sylwester

11 from 11

Dec 10, 2011 | Category: Featured

2011 has been a good year. Starting the blog has been life changing and after reading A Year in the Life of an English Teacher I've decided to take up the challenge and provide you with a smattering...

#edublog awards

Teaching to the test

Dec 08, 2011 | Category: assessment

In the light of the Telegraph's revelations that, shock! horror!, examiners tell teachers how to prepare students for exams it seems an opportune moment to reflect on the past two days. The chest thum...

#SOLO taxonomy #Tait Coles #AQA #English Language GCSE #The Telegraph

Election Fever

Dec 06, 2011 | Category: Featured

[caption id="attachment_773" align="alignnone" width="173" caption="Me, me, vote for me!!"][/caption] The last time I canvassed for votes was back in my school mock election in 1987. In typically awkw...

#blogging #edublog awards #Trotsky #Twitter #voting

Some thoughts on Learning Styles

Dec 05, 2011 | Category: learning

The rusting can of worms that is Learning Styles has been prised open again and the wriggling mess is crawling all over the educational twittersphere. And on that note I will stop extending the metaph...

#AfL #Ian Gilbert #learning styles #Bill Boyd #Daniel Wilingham #Old Andrew #VAK

Why do I need a teacher if I've got Google and a granny?

Dec 04, 2011 | Category: learning

NB - Having reviewed the evidence, I am now thoroughly convinced I was wrong about all this. Instead, try reading Is it just me or is Sugata Mitra an irresponsible charlatan? Over the summer I watched...

#Carol Dweck #Ian Gilbert #SOLO taxonomy #Kenny Pieper #Sugata Mitra #granny clouds #iPads

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

What's deep learning & how do you do it?

Nov 09, 2011 | Category: learning

So, deep learning. What's all that about then? I've just been dipping into Evidence Based Teaching by Geoff Petty and then cross referencing his advice with Why Don't Students Like School? by Daniel W...

#Geoff Petty #John Hattie #Daniel Willingham #Seth Godin