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A capacity to learn?
“Real learning and discovery can only take place when a state of not knowing can be borne long enough to enable all the data gathered by the senses to be …
The classroom as laboratory
Recent moves to improve the use of research to evaluate teaching practice and empower teachers to undertake their own classroom-based study are to be applauded. My experience of the teach-meet …
it’s not hoarding if it’s books
Suicide is a sensitive sociology subject that needs to be taught in schools
Oh dear, AQA have go themselves into a right pickle over the teaching of suicide in A-level sociology. Are some subjects too sensitive to teach? Suicide has long been the epitome of …
Food for thought?
A good-enough teacher?
How do I know if I am a good teacher? How would I know? On what standards should I judge myself? Am I good for those at the top, do I care enough about the bottom? Am I able to close the gap? What about the silent middle? Am I a good colleague?
Reflections from Teachers’ Book Group
Originally posted on teachertweaks:
It’s that wonderful time of year again. Exam classes leaving and everyone wants to claim some of your precious gained time. My favourite aspect is that…
A reflective space?
We have finally reached study leave. I should breathe a sigh of relief but I cannot get that knot out of my shoulders, clear the fog from my brain or feel useful …
Beginnings and endings
Beginnings and endings punctuate life in a school, not only the big beginnings and endings in September and June; they also remain a focus of each term, topic and assessment. I have always felt a mixture of both excitement and terror at all of these junctions.
It’s all about the epistemophillic instinct, isn’t it?
I wanted to call this blog the epistemophillic instinct, but a voice in my head kept saying it was a terrible idea and why do I insist on using this …
the unconscious curriculum 