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What I got up to at the Wellington Festival of Education Part 2

Jun 24, 2014 | Category: Featured

Day Two of the Education Festival dawned rather too early; I was camped out in my van and could have done with another hour or so before the hordes descended. By the time I was decent, and had scoffed...

#Geoff Barton #Nevile Gwynne #Claire Fox #David Weston #Shaun Bailey

3 reasons why you should read The Secret of Literacy

May 10, 2014 | Category: literacy

This is, unashamedly, a sales pitch for my new book, The Secret of Literacy: making the implicit explicit which should be available in the next few days. Apologies if such blatant self-promotion offen...

#Geoff Barton #The Secret of Literacy

So, what does 'gifted' mean anyway?

Jun 14, 2013 | Category: Featured

As you may be aware, non-selective secondary schools are failing the 'most able'. How do we know? Because a brand new Ofsted report tells us so. The report's key findings include such revelations as t...

#Ofsted #Tom Bennett #Geoff Barton #Tom Sherrington #G&T

Developing oracy: it's talkin' time!

Dec 29, 2012 | Category: learning

Talk is the sea upon which all else floats ~ James Britton, Language and Learning, 1970 Students spend a lot of talking, don't they? Everyone can speak, so why would we want to waste valuable time tea...

#questioning #Geoff Barton #IRE #John Sayers #oracy #Robin Alexander #Thought Stems

The Matthew Effect - why literacy is so important

Sep 30, 2012 | Category: learning

Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them.Matthew 13:12 In the world of the 2012 Ofsted framework very few sch...

#Ofsted #literacy #spelling #Reading #writing #Geoff Barton #the Matthew Effect

Some thoughts on silent reading

Jul 01, 2012 | Category: English

[caption id="attachment_2287" align="alignleft" width="300"] Is silence is golden?[/caption]"And Johnny, what makes you think that is suitable for silent reading?" "Because Sir, you really would not w...

#Kenny Pieper #accelerated reader #Geoff Barton #Hirsch #Matthew effect #Saint Ambrose #silent reading