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The GCSE English "fiasco" - Why shouldn't all have prizes?

Sep 02, 2012 | Category: English

Lots of folk have had lots to say about what went on behind the scenes at the various exam boards this summer and throughout it all I've largely kept my peace. Having absorbed the various arguments an...

#English #GCSEs #Gove #literacy #grade inflation

Myths: what Ofsted want

Mar 17, 2012 | Category: English

With galling hypocrisy and seemingly no sense of irony, Ofsted have released their latest subject report for English snappily titled, Moving English Forward. The report is a step by step guide on how...

#Ofsted #lesson observations #Gove

When independent learning meets high stakes success

Mar 10, 2012 | Category: assessment

I've been thinking: our Year 11 students have just had their results back for the January sitting of the English Language GCSE exam. Currently English is a modular course, and this accounts for 40% of...

#Gove #Seth Godin

Is grammar glamorous?

Nov 16, 2011 | Category: English

Well, no it's not is it. Grammar's that dull stuff what kids got taught in the 60s. And then enlightened educationalists decided it was unfashionable for children to know how to parse sentences and wo...

#Sir Ken Robinson #Gove #David Crystal #grammar

Controlled assessment and why I hate it

Oct 28, 2011 | Category: assessment

Yesterday I took a break from ploughing through my Year 10 controlled assessments to exhort myself to "bloody well get on with it" and stop moaning about my work load. Marking is virtuous. You know it...

#GCSE #Gove #controlled assessment #English language #English literature #iGCSE

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

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