From August 2020, in Scotland, gaining the Into Headship Certificate became a requirement for an individual to become a headteacher. It has always been an ambition of mine, since returning to education, to become, at some point a headteacher. Towards that end, I applied to join the program in 2019 only to be told that […]
Over the next couple of weeks, I will be looking at moderation and its implications for teachers and learners. Last year I was fortunate enough to be selected for QAMSO (Quality Assurance and Moderation Support Officer) training provided by Education Scotland. It consisted of six twilight sessions delivered online with colleagues from across the authority.
Moderation – how it works Read More »
The pernicious nature of learning styles means that this idea is one of the most widely propagated educational myths. It is one that refuses to dissipate despite the mountains of evidence that they have no impact on individual learning. I was reminded of this during a course I recently attended where there was a section
Learning Styles – The Japanese knotweed of education Read More »
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 Research Summaries: A collection for easy access. Source: Teacher Tools. Five @teacherhead blogs about teaching
Teacher Tools. Five @teacherhead blogs about teaching for easy sharing. Read More »
I 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 finding employment because while people do tweet adverts or tweet that they are available for work,
Finding or advertising a teaching job on Twitter with #teachingvacancyuk Read More »
This 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 and fro-ing, and with its original title. Source: The school curriculum in the UK: divergence on the Celtic fringe
The school curriculum in the UK: divergence on the Celtic fringe Read More »
I’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 contact me to discuss possible work, please use the contact
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A 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 to be easy to dip into; we want the complexity of
10 Blogs for Great Teaching Read More »
Last 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 information. In particular, this is useful background http://www.natbacctrust.org/about-the-nbfe/ Scroll down to read our FAQs and follow some of the links for further information. At
The National Baccalaureate for England is taking shape. @NatBaccTrust Read More »
I’ve spent the last two years teaching maths – to Year & and Year 10. Finding a good model to help students grabble with algebra has often been a sticking point, especially once we started performing operations on letters; for some students this level of abstraction is incredibly difficult. The idea that a letter
Sweet Algebra. A model. Read More »