Bennett’s tenets: My behaviour guides for going back to school
Edssential article from @tombennett71: It’s back to school for many teachers next week – including me – and most of us are already walking like shades through the crepuscular hinterland, the limbo that...
View ArticleWHO’S RESPONSIBLE FOR MY STUDENTS’ FOLDERS?
Edssential article from @HFletcherWood : My students’ folders have check sheets, documenting their state and (usually) academic targets). With Sayers’ words in mind, I invite readers to examine this...
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Mythbusting…
Edssential article from @shaun_allison : Last week I gave a talk to our new staff about teaching. The night before, I asked the good people of twitter for their input: It caused a bit of a discussion!...
View ArticleDon’t Expect Novices to Learn by Doing What Experts Do
Edssential article from @mr_chadwick : In Daniel T. Willingham’s book ‘Why Don’t Students Like School’ he devotes a whole chapter to the myth that the way to get someone to become an expert is to copy...
View ArticleThe Tyranny of the Working Group
Edssential article from @kennypieper : I’m not sure if you would ever call it pressure but, when you start a new school, or even when you begin a new term in August, there is an expectation that you...
View ArticleGetting Great
Edssential article from @shaun_allison: Teaching is a creative profession, and at DHS we want our teachers to be innovative and excited about what they do – not stifled by an overly prescriptive...
View ArticleContemporary educational ideas all my staff should know about
Edssential article from @headguruteacher: As I look ahead to starting my new job at Highbury Grove, I’m thinking about all the conversations we are going to have about learning. To a large degree I...
View ArticleGreat teacher talk
Edssential article from @turnfordblog : The ‘war’ on Teacher Talk Time was one of the more depressing developments in my teaching career. Obviously secondary students will rapidly get bored if they are...
View ArticleGCSE Outcomes and Transition Matrices: A data tool every teacher can use
Edssential article from @headguruteacher : As most people recognise, when evaluating the degree of success in a set of GCSE outcomes we need some sense of the baseline before we start making...
View ArticleDistilling the best out of words
Edssential article from @atharby: After reading Doug Lemov’s Teach Like a Champion this weekend, I got to considering two of the main strategies he advocates: ‘Right is Right’ and ‘Format Matters’....
View ArticlePurchasing Louisiana, or at least letting teachers choose their CPD
Edssential article from @HFletcherWood : In 1803, James Monroe was dispatched to gain access to a port in Louisiana for the United States. Sent to France as an Extraordinary Envoy, he instead...
View ArticleMaking errors and spotting where the plain socks are located
Edssential article from @Xris32: Making mistakes is just a part of life. I have made mistakes and I still do make them. I put my hands up. Once, in my youth, I bought a yellow canary coloured shirt...
View ArticleTeacher workload: Can it be sustained?
Edssential article from @GoldFishBowlMM : Like many teachers, I filled in the DfE workload survey. I tried thinking about the external demands that increase teacher workloads but I quickly realised...
View ArticleSutton Trust Report 2014 coverage.
Edssential article from @mrocallaghanedu: This post aims to collate news coverage and blog posts about the recently published Sutton trust report into what makes great teaching. Sutton Trust report PDF...
View Article15 TOP TIPS FOR 2015
Edssential article from @CristaHazell: 1. Be deadline ready. Know what you’re meant to be doing for when. 2. Be equipped. Know your students, make sure you know how they are doing not just...
View ArticleReading aloud — Reading All the Books
Edssential article from @readingthebooks: I was not a confident reader in school. Fortunate enough to begin school knowing how to read, my abilities stalled mid-way through, and I couldn’t seem to move...
View ArticleWhy? Why? Why?
Edssential article from @MissDCox : On an education forum I frequent, teachers regularly complain about their school marking policy that demands them to mark student books, say every 2 lessons and how...
View ArticleEduBook Club – Second Meeting
Edssential article from @shaun_allison : Today saw the second EduBook club meeting at DHS, led by Andy Tharby. All classroom based staff were bought a book in September, from the selection above....
View ArticleAdventures in my classroom – displays
Edssential article from @CristaHazell: A few days ago I was overjoyed to see that @flashsticks had tweeted a very old castle, it was an image from the grammar pages of a very ancient tricolore book...
View ArticleDeconstructing My Own Bad Ideas
Edssential article from @kennypieper : So, yes, I get it, that writing a blog is supposed to be about reflection and learning and thinking through your mistakes. Why is it, then, when I read over the...
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