Know thy self
Originally I titled this post “Job application – know thy self’ was a mistake. True, it is particularly important to know your own strengths and areas for development when seeking a post, it is no less important when you are …
Teaching
Applying teaching strategied, techniques and ideas.
Applying for a new job? Benefit from 500 years of teacher experience?
Based on BBC II! Snog Marry Avoid I presented the responses from a minimum of 50 teachers, on a series of co-collaborated education based questions. Each response is the prefixed with an opening word stem, but instead of “snog, marry, …
Deeper, cleaner, leader, coach
I only have a little more experience than when I wrote my first post about Clean Language, – Deeper, cleaner, leader. Since then, I have been able to employ my fledgedly questions and listening skills. Question 1: And what kind …
Moving from mentor to coach
With my first formal coaching session, as coach, scheduled in the diary, I have done all that I can to prepare and be prepared. I believe that I have done all that a can to prepare. I have: Started to …
Deeper, cleaner, leader
For 18 months, communication (both sending and received messages) has been an area for professional development and investigation. In my mind, communication has now been separated into two actionable sending components; planned communication and conversations on-the-go and one receptive component, …
How difficult is hard? Question or item analysis
How difficulty is a question? Multiple Choice Questions MCQ quizzes can be given a difficulty rating or (p-value). The higher the value the easier the question, or quiz.* Having discussed this with the staff at Boundary Oak School – here …
Buses and which Coaching and Mentoring course?
Things comes in threes. (Right @Leah_moo?) Like snow storms, keynoters stuck at the train station and lost room keys (the only room in the hotel with an old fashioned key). What about the Early Careers Framework (ECF), new NPQ qualifications …
I was wrong about ‘teaching to the top’
It would seem that I have been wrong about a few things lately. Encouraging decent is so important within schools, as it is with any organisation. If staff do not feel psychologically safe, few will speak up, even fewer will …