Applying teaching strategied, techniques and ideas.
With the humility to accept that the #hashtag #worldclassteachers was and little too long, engulfing 18 characters of any potential discussion, the afternoons opening presentation began. Quality teaching is the single most important school based factor determining how well school pupils …
Chris Chivers was, for a long time, a smiling avatar on Tweeter. A voice of common sense and thoughtful provocation, and I anticipate, persuasive prowess. Walking in opposite directions, down the corridor at #TLT14 (Southampton University) we paused and offered our, I-recognise-your-face-from-Twitter introductions. Chris smiled, we chatted and we went on with …
Simon Warburton tagged me in on a staffrm.io ice bucket challenge type of post. Here is my reply. What’s your earliest memory of technology? We had an 8 track in the living room and I thought it was really very …
We were moving forward with a fairly standard graded lesson observation form. The top section gathering the contextual information of the class/lesson and current progress of the pupils. The form was then divided into four key sections. “Learning and Progress1,” – what the pupils are learning and how thy are …
For the past two years, within our Academy’s context, I have over-seen the move from a graded “Lesson Observations” schedule to a distributed graded Lesson Observations and Professional Development and Support” programme (LOPDS). When I arrived, all previous observations had been conducted by the VP …
With graded lesson observations in the dock, accused of being wholly ‘unreliable,’ the jury’s verdict a for gone conclusion, were left waiting for the judge’s sentence. Meanwhile, I was a) reflecting on my professional experience of graded lesson observations, b) …
Some might think that I have given far too much consideration to the “whys and where fors” of graded lesson observations this past fourteen or so months. If not graded lesson observations, then Y11 pupil academic FFT(D) targets set as performance objectives certainly comes a class …
About two months ago, my teaching and learning colleague and I discussed the relative strengths and weaknesses of our professional development (PD) provision. We have established two PD cycles per academic year were staff are able to select from a menu …
