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The role of teachers is not to make managers' lives easier
Feb 29, 2016 |
Category: behaviour
"To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them." Benjamin Disraeli
Questions about the purpose of education divide and bedevil: there's no real agreement...
Back to School Part 4: Planning
Aug 23, 2014 |
Category: Featured
This series of #backtoschool blogs summarises much of my thinking as it’s developed over the past few years and is aimed at new or recently qualified teachers. Each area has been distilled to 5 ‘top t...
A model lesson? Part 2: Marathon vs sprint
Sep 14, 2013 |
Category: behaviour
Last week I questioned the concept of outstanding lessons full of gimmicks that look great but ultimately may not result in much actual progress being made. Instead, I argued, embedding classroom rout...
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