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Should group work be imposed?

Feb 15, 2015 | Category: Featured

I recently posted some thoughts on what group work is and isn't good for. At no point did I say it was good for nothing (although predictably my opinion was caricatured as 'hating' group work) and I h...

#group work #Cristina Milos #Education Endowment Foundation #Robert Slavin

Grit and growth: who's to blame for low achievement?

Jul 10, 2014 | Category: Featured

I’ve recently read a couple of interesting articles which question the efficacy of the research of Carol Dweck (Mindset) and Angela Duckworth (Grit). The complaint is that if we attribute an individua...

#Carol Dweck #Cristina Milos #Joe Bower #Growth mindset #Grit #Angela Duckworth #Gary Walsh

The Cult of Outstanding™: the problem with 'outstanding' lessons

Jan 16, 2014 | Category: learning

First of all I need to come clean. Up until pretty recently I was a fully paid up member of the Cult of Outstanding™. Last January I considered myself to be a teacher at the height of my powers. In th...

#Ofsted #lesson observations #Cristina Milos #outstanding lessons #Robert Bjork

Why the knowledge/skills debate is worth having

Jul 07, 2013 | Category: blogging

'I note the obvious differences between each sort and type, but we are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike'.Maya Angelou I've come an awful long way since September 2011 when Cristina Milos to...

#Cristina Milos #knowledge #skills #Sir Michael Wilshaw #Old Andrew #SOLO

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

Knowledge or skills?

Sep 11, 2011 | Category: Featured

Skills, knowledge, who cares? I'm a huge fan of the implementation of Personal Learning and Thinking Skills as part of the English National Curriculum and feel confused and concerned about the curren...

#Cristina Milos #Gove #knowledge #skills