Applying teaching strategied, techniques and ideas.
Last #TLT14 was an amazing PD event. It was here I bumped into the great and the good; teachers, leaders, educationalists and supportive companies contributing to a day. Not to mention the significant efforts of the organising team. Tom Sherrington …
Confidence, reassurance, familiarity (with the environment, with exam rubrics and with questions), reading skills (decoding questions, responding to command words, identifying keywords) writing/responding skills, myth busting, what ever the benefit, walking pupils through an exam paper has benefit. This years vogue (2015), the “walking, talking …
Our Quick Key teachers team at The Wellington Academy is growing. We are now four, hoping to attract members from all nine curriculum areas. Our successes (insightful feedback for pupils, delivery feedback for teachers) and reclaimed marking time appear attractive motivators for our …
Outperformance: the ability of an organisation to achieve results that are consistently better than a chosen peer group. The are no shortage of Sir Dave Brailsford MBA, CBE, fans. His ‘marginal gains*’ approach to leading success is simply unpicked in this ‘Investors …
As we move to a Kay Stage 3 curriculum without levels, teachers across the land are devising learning “journeys” with appropriate assessment activities. Complete with… …lessons rich in assessment opportunities in the short term that progressively build towards agreed standards. Meanwhile, back …
No one is going to argue with the notion that education should be, and can be a social equalizer? Closing the gap (which should read attainment and progress) between disadvantaged and other pupils is a high priority in our Academy, as …
Back in October I enrolled on a Managing Behaviour for Learning (MBL) – course, offered by The National Science Learning Centre. In many senses the course was billed as a MOOC, so I shared the link with our staff and again …
Where is the wonder and invention in our schooling? How much impact do school leaders really have on their schools curriculum design? The thinking behind this post was promoted by a TED Talk and quotation from contemporary artist, Dusin Yellin …
