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...
Read MoreI’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;...
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...
Read MoreAfter the chaos of last year’s writing assessment arrangements, there have been many questions hanging over the results, one of which has been the difference between the results of schools which had their judgements moderated,...
Read MoreHere are the slides from my talk at the ResearchEd English and MFL conference on Saturday 1st April, at the University Examination Schools: Proper Acting for Proper Teachers PDF A jaunt through some essential drama teaching I...
Read MoreAfter sixteen years of teaching, high school teacher Kisaundra Harris switched to flexible seating. Her students now call her classroom a safe haven. Continue Reading →https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/funky-science-lab/
Read MoreFollowing on from a recent post on the folly of forcing children to read along as they are being read to, I presented my thoughts on reading fluency and the problems with ‘reading along’ at researchED’s English & MFL...
Read MoreAs we all know – well, most of us – the climate is changing as a result of human behaviour. Maybe we could do something about it, but it won’t be painless. It would involve those of us living the developed world giving up some...
Read MoreThe new consultation on primary assessment ticks nearly all the boxes. But with ‘secure fit’, it’s not quite Expected Standard...
Read MoreToday Justine Greening wrote this letter in which she explains that she wanted to give everyone more certainty about the value of the new GCSE Grade 4. Whereas previously – outrageously – Nicky Morgan had decreed that only...
Read MoreOne does not have to look too hard to find examples of where curriculum selection was designed to indoctrinate. The most obvious cases are the totalitarian states of the twentieth century where children in, say, 1930s Germany or...
Read MoreI keep going on about this but at some point, something’s going to break. Ever since Michael Gove and Ofqual – more or less independently – decided, reasonably and sensibly, to bring an end to grade inflation around 2010,...
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