Back to the classroom
Your future hasn’t been written yet. No one’s has. Your future is whatever you make it. So make it a good one. – Doc Brown Back from Dubai and back in the classroom at a medium sized, growing, multicultural city school, …
Sunday trefoil – trust, culture and climate 06.10.19
Lack of trust makes simple work slow and easy work difficult. Joel Peterson The development of trust with organisations is an area of professional interest preoccupation. From the scientific explanation of Oxytocin, to the practical advice of Dr Paul Browning, …
Sunday trefoil 29.09.19
Ahead of teaching Year 9s Dickens’s ‘A Christmas Carol’ and Year 8s Conan Doyle’s ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’ my first responsibility was to broadening and deepening my own subject knowledge. For example I learnt that the Victorian’s interest in …
Sunday trefoil 22.09.19
Over on the TES, Kai Vacher (Principal of the British School Muscat in Oman) is reminding us of the importance authentic leadership. That “strong and robust” leadership are less important than a “wise and just” style, with leaders “driven as …
What matters most?
I have, on occasions, referred to this blog as a “thinking-skip.” A space to transfer my thinking and thoughts for record or storage. A space to collect and curate thoughts/thinking, stories and extracts. Sometimes, I use it as a space …
ILM Coaching and Mentoring Unit 500 (1.3)
This is the second of two post sharing extracts from my ILM Unit Coaching and Mentoring Unit 500 submission. Section 1.3 requires candidates to present “the business rationale for either coaching or mentoring.” With Performance Management deadlines looming, I was …
ILM Coaching and Mentoring Unit 500 (1.2)
Understanding the Skills, Principles and Practice of Effective Coaching and Mentoring within an Organisational Context The first of three unit submissions, Unit 500 requires learners demonstrate an understanding of the skills, principles and practice required for effective coaching or mentoring …
Ratings as part of performance review #fail
With October looming, I am back challenging performance review or appraisal (often referenced as performance management) and particularly the use of “teacher ratings.” It is nearly as preposterous as presenting the percentage of “Outstanding lessons?” It comes the day after …