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This week’s top blogs cover how to develop articulate learners, a powerful curriculum metaphor, world-building, courageous leadership, lies, damned lies and statistics Our Vision For Confident and Articulate Students @MissTBegum This is an excellent blog which has at its heart a simple vision: building in students the confidence and communication skills they need to […]
Reviews, Blogs
Let our voices be heard Sam On March 15, children across the country walked out of their lessons. Why? “To protest against the world leaders’ attitudes towards climate change”. This protest was difficult for adults for a number of reasons. The flush of guilt as we quietly kick the can down the road. The sense […]
Reviews
A fifth of teachers studying to be the first ever educators granted “chartered teacher status” have failed at least one part of the course so far – but they have eight strikes before they are out. The chartered teacher or “CTeach” programme, launched last September by the newly instituted Chartered College of Teaching (CCT), is […]
News
For a little under two decades as a teacher, I had never heard of, let alone attended, an education conference. The closest I got was the odd off-site INSET where I met with other teachers in my borough or surrounding boroughs. When I networked at these events, conversation revolved around what was happening in our […]
Opinion
Our reviewer of the week is Andrew Old, a teacher and blogger The stench of failure and the sweet aroma of success @Xris32 The author of this post argues that we talk about teaching as if it isn’t natural for everyone to make mistakes. He calls this “the perfection problem” and identifies mistakes as […]
Reviewer Andrew Old shares his top education blogs this week Annoying things controlling schools still do that have no basis in evidence @teacherhead As the title suggests, this post looks at what schools do even when there is no reason to believe they will help. This includes grading individual lessons, writing target grades on books […]
A customised Marmite jar stands on Katharine Birbalsingh’s desk, with the name “Michaela” emblazoned across it. It’s a stroke of marketing genius. The education world seems to be divided into those who adore the no-excuses, knowledge-focused, silent-corridor secondary school she established, and those who recoil at its very mention. Controversial policies include ditching SEND labels, giving […]
Features
Reviewer Harry Fletcher-Wood shares his top education blogs this week The problem with education in England @mathsjem “Did you know England tops the world’s league table in rote memorisation?” Jo Morgan begins. “This is, most certainly and without equivocation, a bad thing.” It’s a bad thing, we are told, because it resembles a factory […]
Blog reviewer Andrew Old shares his top edu-blogs this week Step by step: Breaking learning down using behavioural psychology By @HFletcherWood In this post, my fellow Schools Week blog reviewer Harry Fletcher-Wood explains that if you are stuck up a climbing wall, you don’t need encouragement, you need step-by-step advice on where to put […]