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Thinking like a writer

Jun 04, 2013 | Category: English

How do we get better at writing? By writing.The advice I always give to students to improve their writing is to write. Often. Everyday if possible. This might be a private diary entry, an Amazon revie...

#Phil Beadle #Tom Bennett #practice #Rober Bjork

Icebergs, taking risks & being outstanding

Feb 11, 2013 | Category: Featured

How do we recognise a great teacher, a great lesson or great teaching and learning? How do we know what we're seeing is outstanding?The sad truth is that often observers don't (or can't) see the wood...

#risks #failure #Zoe Elder #Dylan Wiliam #John Hattie #Phil Beadle #Sir Michael Wilshaw #learning loop #icebergs #Outstanding teaching & learning #Thomas Edison

Live Lesson Obs: Making lesson observations formative

Feb 03, 2013 | Category: Featured

You can push and prod people into something better than mediocrity, but you have to encourage excellence.David Lammy We've all experienced the dread and agony of formal lesson observations, haven't we...

#lesson observations #Phil Beadle #Clevedon School #David Lammy #Live Lesson Obs

Planning a 'perfect' lesson

Jun 30, 2012 | Category: training

How long does a decent lesson take to plan? Ofsted have recently made clear that they're not interested in over complicated lesson plans noting that "excessive detail within plans causes teachers to l...

#Ofsted #Phil Beadle #John Tomsett #Lesson planning #checklists #Michael Fullan #random lesson generators

The mathematics of writing

Oct 30, 2012 | Category: English

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns… The mathematician’s patterns, like the painter’s or the poet’s must be beautiful; the ideas like the colours or the words, must fit t...

#Phil Beadle #grammar #writing #Dancing About Architecture #maths #Michael Swann

Is SOLO a waste of time?

Jun 04, 2012 | Category: learning

Stop blaming your lack of experimentation, risk and innovation on your lack of time.Hywel Roberts - Oops! Helping Children Learn Accidentally It was pointed out to me recently that I can afford to exp...

#SOLO taxonomy #John Hattie #Phil Beadle #direct instruction #Hywel Roberts #Jigsawing #time

The ultimate teaching technique

Feb 14, 2012 | Category: learning

UPDATE: I no longer agree with any of the following. It remains on my blog as a warning against hubris. June, 2016 Maybe it's just me, but I seem to be encountering an awful lot of people railing agai...

#group work #Phil Beadle #home & expert groups

What's the point of homework?

Sep 04, 2011 | Category: Featured

Father: What's all those books then?Son: That's my homework dad.Father: You know what son, if they can't teach you all the stuff you need to know during the day, they can't be very good at their jobs...

#Phil Beadle #detention #Hattie #homework #Marzano

How to have a successful life

Oct 01, 2011 | Category: learning

This week Mr Phil Beadle graced us with his towering presence and 'edutained' 60 Year 11 students. I was going to call this post "Beadle's About" but I'm sure he's heartily sick of any comparisons to...

#Carol Dweck #Ian Gilbert #Phil Beadle

Reasons to be cheerful

Sep 26, 2011 | Category: learning

So, it's now the fourth week back and despite been plum tuckered (I've a vague notion that this means tired) I'm still smiling. I've just read Kenny Pieper's latest post on how he's feeling after (in...

#Phil Beadle #Kenny Pieper #Ian Dury #optimism #reflection