My own strategies, ideas, plans, suggestions policies that didnt make the grade and possibly those put forward by colleagues, media, twitter and more.
Teens wearing a single ear bud, teens sharing ear buds, using both ear buds… simply the prevalence of teens listening to something, whilst doing something else, is now culture. It is why quite a few teens and pupils generally, are …
Retention over recruitment. Education is falling on both counts. We can not keep teachers in the profession, 40% of teachers do not expect to be in the profession within the next five years (NEU Survey). There are specialist recruitment and …
Yesterday I reflected on the Education Support report on teacher retention. In fairness, the report was more solution focused than today’s education headlines. In fact, the sector’s frustrations have been referred to as a “backlash” towards the DfE’s attempt to …
This should be a short post. It is a frustrated post. It is where lay advice, proverbial advice, is bad advice for learners. “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again,” is bad advice for learners. What is more …
If you occasionally swing past this blog you’ll not be surprised by the headline. What you may not be aware of is that quizzing also reduces course failure rates or increases the odds of passing a class. “…the odds of …
Listen to enough Dr John Dunlosky interviews and you will be convinced of two points: The importance of effective time management The importance of teaching students how they should go about learning (practice testing, spaced practice, and successive relearning) Of …
This is essential reading for parents of pupils preparing for exams and pupils themselves. Results from two experiments indicate that even when people are successful at maintaining sustained attention – as when avoiding the temptation to check their phones -the …
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 …
