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Ofsted's new Inspection Handbook - a cause for celebration

Jul 30, 2014 | Category: Featured

As detailed by Old Andrew here, I attended a meeting with the new National Director for Schools Policy, Sean Harford in Birmingham on Friday 25th July. This had followed a series of telephone calls an...

#Ofsted #Old Andrew #Sean Harford #Inspection Handbook

The shocking mediation of Ofsted criteria by 'rogue' inspectors

Nov 10, 2013 | Category: training

There's a lot said and written about what Ofsted do and don't want to see in lessons, and it turns out a lot of it is nonsense. Fortunately though we have Michael Wilshaw, the chief inspector, saying...

#Ofsted #Sir Michael Wilshaw #Old Andrew #Mary Myatt

Awards Season 2013 - my votes in the Edublog Awards

Dec 07, 2013 | Category: blogging

It's that time again. The rhythm of the year inevitably reaches a staccato climax as the Edublog Awards, or Eddies, trundle laboriously into view. And happily the voting process appears much less flaw...

#edublog awards #Old Andrew #Tom Sherrington #Laura McInerney

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

Some thoughts on Learning Styles

Dec 05, 2011 | Category: learning

The rusting can of worms that is Learning Styles has been prised open again and the wriggling mess is crawling all over the educational twittersphere. And on that note I will stop extending the metaph...

#AfL #Ian Gilbert #learning styles #Bill Boyd #Daniel Wilingham #Old Andrew #VAK