What’s Going on Here? How to Have a Trouble Huddle with Students
With a trouble huddle, you allow your best laid plans to veer off the rails, stop the activity, and ask, “What’s going on here? What seems to be the problem?” Continue Reading →https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/trouble-huddle/
Schools Are Not Businesses. A Message to Lord Nash.
Lord Nash, speaking at the Challenge Partnership national conference, titled his talk: ‘what is relevant in business to education?’ According to the TES, he said that: “…too often teachers have confused their individuality with their professionalism… Being a...
The curriculum as progression model
What does it mean to get better at history? One of the problems we have in answering this question is that history is an incredibly diverse discipline: there are thousands of possible things that one might legitimately study at school. In one school pupils might be...
Teachers work nearly 11 hours a day, landmark workload survey reveals
This is one of the reasons why so many people leave the profession. That sort of workload is just not sustainable year in year out, even with the summer holidays to recharge batteries. Some eye opening facts here. "Teachers are working an average of 54.4 hours a week...
Why formative assessment matters: the power of prior knowledge
“The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows. Ascertain this and teach him accordingly.” (Ausubel, 1968 in Wiliam, 2016)...
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