I am here at New Place, listening to Nick Dennis sharing his thoughts on technology for education. Nick draws on his clear passion for his subject (history), a passion for learning, but an strong appreciation for infrastructure and a working …
Follow the NCSL ‘Effective Influencing’ course I raced back to school for parents evening. Having listened to the parents and carer at our parent forum group I made two conscious changes to the way I operated. First, I stated that …
Just a short post to highlight a new term I encountered yesterday when a student relayed their account of an incident in class. A confrontation occurred when one student reacted rather vicisfously to be called a neek. Neek: A cross between a Nerd …
One of the benefits to observing lessons is that this old dog, still gets to learn new tricks. Like all good mavens, I collect these and share them. Like the 54 Ways to introduce a Learning Objective Google Doc. This …
The illustrious question on leadership and management, seems to unwittingly favour on the qualities of leadership over the industries of management. [blackbirdpie id=”205016718555365376″] Karl’s viewpoint might make you think that that imbalance is perhaps unjustified.
Today I lead ‘high impact interviews with student voice’ as part of our Vice Principal interviews as the opening activity. Here is how we delivered it. Before Meet with student voice, student leaders and invited them to take parent and …
Involved in interviewing today I heard a lot about values. Values about oneself as a teacher and about education as a system. Interestingly, I did not hear much about the values we try to imaprt onto our students. This may …
Having attended various leadership interviews over the past two year, including applying for the role I was currently in as part of a leadership reorganisation (successful), I always saw interviewing as an opportunity to glean all that was good from …
