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Bottom sets and the scourge of low-level disruption
Nov 14, 2016 |
Category: behaviour
In many English schools, low-level disruption is the norm. Children talking when expected to be silent, fiddling with equipment and each other, calling out, and generally not being 'on task' are all r...
The uses of disappointment
Sep 13, 2015 |
Category: psychology
"Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue." Samuel Johnson
I had very low expectati...
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