Plans, rice, trees and children
If your plan is for one year, plant rice. If your plan is for ten years, plant tree. If your plan is for one hundred years, educate children. Planning is something I have been giving a lot of thought to …
Small gestures really make a difference
It is Christmas eve. We are soon to head out for “breakfast with Santa,” with our Southampton family / in-laws and the morning post has just arrived… It has been a very tough and wonderful weekend. Yesterday we visited my extended …
Is my teaching excellent? (part 2)
When I wrote part 1, I didn’t know there was going to be a part 2. However, here it is and it includes a subtle shift of emphasis. A shift from excellent or expert teachers, to excellent teaching. A shift …
What every teacher needs to know about assessment (Q2)
The first post, covered the first half of “What every teacher needs to know about assessment.” Unsurprisingly, this post covers the second half. What practices schools should do ‘more‘ or ‘less’ of. What assessment practices should schools do more of, and …
What every teacher needs to know about assessment (Q1)
Introduced by Professor Stuart Kime (Director of Education at Evidence Based Education – EBE) “What every teacher needs to know about assessment,” brought together researchers and cross-phase leaders, teachers and teacher trainiers; Dr Christine Harrison (King’s College London), Phil Stock (Secondary DHT – …
#rEDKent – without getting wet
Searching the #rEDKent thread provides #rEDKent filtered content. It is content selected for re-posting. Then I filter this content a second time, what is interesting to me, or signposts to wider reading, or educationalists with contesting opinions worth following. All …
Ken Jones – News from nowhere
The #IOEDebates offers a rich vein of educational thinking. Panelists are dedicated experts within their education field. Hence the debates are often a level or two above a chance encounter, water-cooler conversation. Chaired by Professor Becky Francis, Director, UCL Institute …
How well can teachers estimate the difficulty of a question?
Teachers are not very good at writing effective and usable assessment questions. says @ProfCoe #rEdDurham Studies typically find that unstructured judgements of the expected proportion who will get a question right typically correlate about 0.2-0.3 with the actual proportions (Bramley & …