Making data meaningful: Pen Portraits
Most of what makes classrooms work is invisible. The activities that teachers and students enact are, by and large, irrelevant. I'm aware that this runs the risk of sounding like preposterous nonsense, but I think it's true. The here and now of lessons and classrooms is dependent on the routines and relationships that have been forged over time. If you're clear about what is and is not acceptable behaviour, firm and fair in applying consequences and provide meaningful feedback on how pupils' can improve it almost doesn't matter what you do in a lesson. And vice versa: if you neglect these things, no [...]