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If you grade it, it's not formative assessment

Sep 02, 2011 | Category: assessment

Having a bit of a crisis of confidence. Canadian teacher and education reformer, Joe Bower tweeted the title of the post this morning. That's not right I thought, I can provide formative feedback on a...

#formative assessment #comments #grades #Joe Bower #Ruth Butler #Stephen Gorard

Team Meetings: some stuff I've learnt

Sep 01, 2011 | Category: leadership

What with the introduction of Personal Learning & Thinking Skills, I've done loads of team work with students over the past few years and it was timely that tonight's #ukedchat's topic was 'How do you...

#motivation #Dan Pink #learning focussed agendas #meetings #vision

Going SOLO

Oct 05, 2011 | Category: learning

A few months ago I wrote about some of the concerns people have had with ubiquity of Bloom's Taxonomy and that there were other, perhaps more useful taxonomies around. Well, since then I've been quiet...

#SOLO taxonomy

How to have a successful life

Oct 01, 2011 | Category: learning

This week Mr Phil Beadle graced us with his towering presence and 'edutained' 60 Year 11 students. I was going to call this post "Beadle's About" but I'm sure he's heartily sick of any comparisons to...

#Carol Dweck #Ian Gilbert #Phil Beadle

Reading should be our top priority

Sep 28, 2011 | Category: English

[caption id="attachment_476" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="http://www.martinamisweb.com/miscellaneous.shtml"][/caption]I've just read a sobering piece on reading in UK schools from Mike Baker...

#Mike Baker #Neil Kinnock #Roy Blatchford

Reasons to be cheerful

Sep 26, 2011 | Category: learning

So, it's now the fourth week back and despite been plum tuckered (I've a vague notion that this means tired) I'm still smiling. I've just read Kenny Pieper's latest post on how he's feeling after (in...

#Phil Beadle #Kenny Pieper #Ian Dury #optimism #reflection

Learning Journeys

Sep 21, 2011 | Category: learning

Last month I wrote a post asking whether there was a point to starters. Luckily for me, Darren Mead got in touch to tell me about what he has termed Learning Journeys. Ever since I've been absolutely...

#Geoff Petty #John Hattie #starters #Darren Mead #effect sizes #Learning Journeys

Is there a case for summative assessment?

Sep 19, 2011 | Category: assessment

I've written a lot on the importance of formative assessment recently and feel pretty clear in my own mind of its efficacy. In contrast I see summative assessment as existing only as an external measu...

#summative assessment #Cristina Milos #Jennifer Borgioli

Questions every teacher should ask every day

Sep 18, 2011 | Category: learning

I've just read David Warlick's blog post on Transformative Questions and am feeling pretty excited about it. In it he challenges teachers to "create a culture of learners that thrive in the 21st ce...

#David Warlick #questioning

Easy vs Hard

Sep 16, 2011 | Category: Featured

We choose to do these things not because they are easy but because they are hard. - JFKWe are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. - AristotleA teachers' job is not to...

#mindsets #Dweck #Gove #Effort #John Fowles #Michael Jordan #Sir Michael Wilshaw #Susanna Rustin