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Didau's Taxonomy

Apr 04, 2017 | Category: Featured

Taxonomy is the science of classification. As such it’s useful for ordering items within a domain into different categories. Contrary to popular understanding, although taxonomies can be hierarchical,...

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When is a bad idea a bad idea?

Jun 23, 2015 | Category: myths

While people are entitled to their illusions, they are not entitled to a limitless enjoyment of them and they are not entitled to impose them upon others.Christopher Hitchens Twitter exploded into fur...

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Where do I want my daughters to go to school?

Sep 27, 2014 | Category: Featured

My eldest daughter is in Year 6 and applications for secondary school applications need to be in by the end of October. To my shame, I've taken the route my middle-class parents take; we're moving int...

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It's not what you know... oh, hang on: it IS what you know!

Nov 09, 2013 | Category: learning

I'm fed up of people who should know better saying they're bored with the false dichotomy of skills versus knowledge. The knowledge vs skills debate is always worth having because it conceals a more f...

#bloom's taxonomy #knowledge #SOLO #Joe Kirby

How knowledge is being detached from skills in English

Jun 18, 2013 | Category: English

I don't normally do this. In fact, I haven't put up a post by anyone else since last August. But in this case Joe Kirby has expressed my own thoughts so articulately that there seemed little point try...

#bloom's taxonomy #knowledge #skills #Shakespeare #Joe Kirby

Challenging Bloom's Taxonomy

Aug 24, 2011 | Category: myths

Have had a few thought provoking debates recently about the validity of Bloom's Taxonomy. Yes, that's right, a challenge to the orthodoxy! I've read through a selection of articles which all point to...

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Zooming in and out

Jul 11, 2011 | Category: English

For some years now I have been using what I call The Grade Ladder with students to help them understand the skills required to perform at different grades. This isn't particularly original and has bee...

#analysing #bloom's taxonomy #English #evaluating #GCSE #Literature #Of Mice and Men