This blog is a designed for easy sharing of some of the more popular recent blogs from this site to help teachers reflect on their practice and to access some key research papers. 1. Read the Research Teaching and Learning...
In The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker argues that “education is a technology that tries to make up for what the human mind is innately bad at.” Schools have only ever existed in cultures where culturally specific knowledge has...
Schools Week Source: ‘Great teaching is the opposite of what you learn in...
This blog is a designed for easy sharing of some of the more popular recent blogs from this site to help teachers reflect on their practice and to access some key research papers. 1. Read the Research Teaching and Learning...
Read MoreI have got two of my last three positions by asking on Twitter if anyone wants a traditionalist maths teacher. This hasn’t always worked, but if you have enough followers it might. Generally, however, Twitter is not great for...
Read MoreThis is the original version of the article published today in The Conversation ( https://theconversation.com/in-britains-battle-over-school-curriculum-celtic-nations-have-got-it-right-90277 ) – before all the editorial to-ing...
Read MoreI’m pleased to say that teacherhead-consulting is now up and running. If you are interested in the kind of support I can provide, here is a run down of some of the work I’ve done in the last two months. If you would like to...
Read MoreA blogger-friend told me recently that most of his top blogs have numbers in them: 10 ways to do this; 10 ideas for that; 7 tools for making life easy – that kind of thing. Why? I guess it’s because we want our online material...
Read MoreLast week, the National Baccalaureate Trust board gathered at the Edge Foundation offices to push forward with our mission. We’re due to update our website very soon but already natbacctrust.org provides lots of useful...
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