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12 rules for schools – Rule 2 Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping

Jan 22, 2018 | Category: Featured

This is the second in a series of posts adapting Jordan Peterson's 12 Rules of Life to the context of eduction. You can find my thoughts on Rule 1 here. Please note, Peterson talks about a lot of othe...

#workload #Well-being #12 Rules for Life #Jordan Peterson #gratitude

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...

#marking #planning #data #workload

Why I like 'tick n flick'

Dec 16, 2015 | Category: Featured

It is vain to do with more what can be done with less. William of Ockham Tick n flick - the practice of flicking through students' exercise books and ticking to indicate that they have been read (o...

#John Hattie #marking #workload #Greg Ashman

Marking: What (some) Ofsted Inspectors (still) want

Dec 03, 2015 | Category: workload

It is up to schools themselves to determine their practices and for leadership teams to justify these on their own merits rather than by reference to the inspection handbook. UPDATE: There is a happy(...

#Ofsted #marking #workload

Workload, retention & accountability: One policy to rule them all

Nov 22, 2015 | Category: leadership

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies. Rudyard Kipling There's a lot wrong with the way schools are held to account which result in perverse incentives for schoo...

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What to do about workload?

Feb 07, 2015 | Category: leadership

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!Henry Ward Beecher To much fanfare in the press, the DfE has released the findings of its Workload Challenge survey. The idea is straightforward: to prevent te...

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Why 'triple marking' is wrong (and not my fault)

Nov 29, 2014 | Category: leadership

You can't blame celebrity edubloggers for teachers' unreasonable workloads - Albert Einstein In his indefatigable efforts to get schools and teachers to recognise that much of what is done in the name...

#Ofsted #marking #Triple impact marking #Mike Cladingbowl #workload