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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 using Initial Stimulus Material.  He argues that stimuli such as stories, images or problems can help us outline objectives in “a clever, meaningful way”, posing hypotheses and establishing […]

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, teaching to the test and direct, teacher-led instruction are one and the same thing. Here

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 arguments are often expressed as questions: ‘whose truth?’ And ‘whose knowledge?’ These ideas are then used to back up the idea that

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 issue penalty notices in such circumstances. Catherine Stalham, head of Winter Gardens primary academy in Essex, last week

January 14, 2017 at 08:10AM The human rights charity Liberty will write to every headteacher in England to demand better information for parents over the collection of pupil nationality data. Schools will next week attempt for the second time to collect information on their pupils’ nationality and country of birth, first introduced in September last

January 14, 2017 at 02:15AMThe Big Bang I doubt there are many Heads who don’t consider themselves to be top of the tree. That’s why we took on the job, right? We had the belief that we were the best person to oversee the running of an entire school. I bet most of us got

January 13, 2017 at 07:37PM Jennifer Bexon-Smith, regional schools commissioner for the East Midlands and the Humber, will retire in March after just over two years in the role. Bexon-Smith was previously the executive principal and chief executive of the Tudor Grange Academies Trust in Yorkshire before taking on the task of improving regional school