Author: Jill Berry

Reviewer Jill Berry shares her top education blogs this week How I learn 26 names within five minutes @Jobaker9 This brilliantly practical post details Jo Baker’s strategy for quickly learning the names of pupils she teaches. I am absolutely with Jo in her conviction that being able to address each student by name from the […]

Reviewer Jill Berry shares her top education blogs this week Selling teacher recruitment on wow moments is a lie  @adamboxer1  Writing for Teachwire, Adam Boxer discusses advertisements designed to attract future generations of teachers. These campaigns emphasise teaching’s “wow” moments, capitalising on aspiring teachers’ passion to make a difference and transform young lives. Reading this […]

Blog reviewer Jill Berry shares her top edu-blogs this week   Learning to love challenge @JenWillis1 My first blog choice this week came out last year, but I only read it when it re-emerged recently through Twitter. I’m featuring it here for the benefit of others who may be in the same position. Jen Willis […]

Reviewer Jill Berry shares her favourite edu-blogs this week   The WomenEd book club, non-binary bias and the affair Penelope didn’t have @Penny_Ten After the inaugural #WomenEd online book club discussion on Mary Beard’s Women and power on January 28, Penny Rabiger explores issues of gender and voice. “One of the things that troubles me […]

Blog reviewer Jill Berry shares her top edu-blogs of the week   Oracy in the curriculum and how technology can help @ICTEvangelist In this comprehensive post, Mark Anderson explores how we can support the development of oracy using technology. Mark is good at pointing those less confident with technology than he is (which I suspect […]

Blog reviewer Jill Berry shares her top edu-blogs of the week   Fostering respect for diversity in a climate of fear and misunderstanding: the case for a religious education @alicesmcneill My first choice this week is a post from Alice McNeill, head of Partnerships at Bedales School, which appeared on the ISC blog a couple […]

Blog reviewer Jill Berry shares her top edu-blogs of the week What is a Tweacher? @sputniksteve This blogger’s Twitter page includes the phrase “blog like you’re Foucault”, and in this post he describes a section of his doctoral thesis where he examines how contributors to educational Twitter debates construct their online identities “through a Foucauldian […]

Reviewer Jill Berry shares her top picks from the edu-blogosphere this week   Reflections upon our relationship with food @DaringOptimist There is a good deal of activity on Twitter and in blogs on the subject of wellbeing, including the highly successful #teacher5aday initiative and now regular posts from @HealthyToolkit. In this August post, Daring Optimist […]

Reviewer Jill Berry shares her top edu-blogs from the week   Disconnect in the classroom @effortfuledukatr A new blogger to me, Blake Harvard reflects on the relationship between practitioners and researchers, and what might be done better to connect the two. He examines the barriers that might lead to teachers making good use of the […]