Category: education
Did you know about John Hattie’s Research?
Our school was recently inspected. The result of this has been a lot of time and effort spent thinking about how we can reimagine a lot of what we do. In terms of school improvement, it is impossible not to consider the work of...
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Once more into the classroom 2022
The end of the last term was difficult. I had to reapply for the position of Principal Teacher...
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Into Headship
From August 2020, in Scotland, gaining the Into Headship Certificate became a requirement for an...
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Moderation – how it works
Over the next couple of weeks, I will be looking at moderation and its implications for teachers...
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Learning Styles – The Japanese knotweed of education
The pernicious nature of learning styles means that this idea is one of the most widely propagated...
Read MoreTeacher Tools. Five @teacherhead blogs about teaching for easy sharing.
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 MoreFinding or advertising a teaching job on Twitter with #teachingvacancyuk
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...
Read MoreThe school curriculum in the UK: divergence on the Celtic fringe
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...
Read MoreDidau’s Taxonomy
Taxonomy is the science of classification. As such it’s useful for ordering items within a domain into different categories. Contrary to popular understanding, a taxonomy is not a system for developing hierarchies. In education,...
Read MoreIs formative assessment fatally flawed? Confusing learning & performance
Do we undermine formative assessment by confusing learning and performance? Student performance during a lesson is “a highly imperfect index of long-term learning” (Soderstrom and Bjork, 2015), but...
Read MoreWhat’s so great about making mistakes?
To err is human Alexander Pope Making mistakes is an inevitable part of life. We’re all wrong about something at some point. Obviously contending with failure, learning to drag ourselves up by the bootstraps when we fall down...
Read MoreWhat’s the point of school?
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...
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