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Outstanding is the enemy of good

Dec 13, 2015 | Category: Featured

Were it not sinful then, striving to mend, To mar the subject that before was well?Shakespeare In our efforts to be the best, are we eroding our ability to be good? Everyone tends to agree that high e...

#Pareto #Joe Kirby #Aristotle #Voltaire

Is it possible to get assessment right?

May 23, 2015 | Category: assessment

No.After my last blog on how to get assessment wrong, various readers got in touch to say, OK smart arse, what should we do?Well, I'm afraid the bad news is that we'll never get assessment right. Or a...

#Joe Kirby #Daisy Christodoulou #Amanda Spielman #The Mastery Pathway

What should written feedback look like?

May 04, 2015 | Category: Featured

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.Arthur Schopenhauer In response to my last post, Cristina Milos pointed out that I use the term 'feedback' without providing any further...

#marking #Joe Kirby #proofreading #RAG123 #written feedback

What if there was no outstanding?

Mar 16, 2014 | Category: leadership

The cynics are right nine times out of ten.H.L. Mencken Does the outstanding grade retard innovation or drive us towards excellence?This is just a flight of fancy; a thought experiment. What would hap...

#motivation #Joe Kirby #outstanding

Principled curriculum design: the English curriculum

Dec 16, 2013 | Category: English

The tragedy of life is that one can only understand life backwards, but one must live it forwards Søren Kierkegaard Back in March 2013, I wrote about the principles underlying my redesign of a Keys St...

#Dylan Wiliam #grammar #Alex Quigley #Joe Kirby #Daisy Christodoulou #Debra Myhill #Threshold concepts

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

The times they are a changin': how can we improve the PGCE?

Oct 27, 2013 | Category: Featured

Back in the dim and distant mists of time when I embarked on my Post-graduate Certificate in Education, there was no other way to train as a teacher. Much of my training was interesting and I largely...

#Teach First #Joe Kirby #Doug Lemov #PCK #PGCE #School Direct

Has lesson observation become the new Brain Gym?

Nov 16, 2013 | Category: training

I've thought a lot about lesson observation over the past couple of years and have come to the conclusion that it is broken. What is most worrying is that it is almost universally accepted as the best...

#Ofsted #Sir Michael Wilshaw #Graham Nuthall #Robert Bjork #Joe Kirby #Chris Moyes #lesson observation #Mary Myatt #Matt O'Leary #Robert Coe

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