Month: January 2017

January 14, 2017 at 08:09PM Guest post by Krista Taylor. An earlier version of the post originally appeared on Angels and Superheroes. Teacher professional development has a reputation for being notoriously poor.So often it’s a...

January 14, 2017 at 07:09PMI’ve been reconsidering good ways to begin lessons and share objectives.  Looking beyond writing objectives on the board (and perhaps copying them into books), Rob Phillips (2001) suggests...

January 14, 2017 at 06:36PM This is part 2 of a series of blogs on my new book, Making Good Progress?: The future of Assessment for Learning. Click here to read the introduction to the series.For many people, teaching knowledge,...

January 14, 2017 at 04:33PM Two arguments have been prevalent in education discourse for a number of years: one, that the content of the curriculum is just a reflection of power relations and two, that all truth is relative. The...

January 14, 2017 at 01:11PM A school’s plan to fine parents if their children are consistently late for registration will not solve the problem, say union leaders – although the government has told headteachers they can legally...