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UCAS 2016: A buyer’s market?
We have survived A-level results day, despite my worst fears it was a sunny end to an emotional day. Our results were a mixed bag with some surprises but no …
The unconscious curriculum at researchEd 2016.
Some reflections on how the unconscious works its way into our classrooms, staffrooms and school processes. This session will follow the tradition of Melanie Klein, Anna Freud and Wilfred Bion …
A brief guide to the new GCSE grade boundaries
Originally posted on missdcoxblog:
There will be no UMS. These were for modular exams. Everything is now linear. The DfE have published descriptors for 2/5/8, however they are mainly meaningless…
The myth of gained time
One of the many lies we tell ourselves about the summer term is the one about ‘gained time’. For teachers, struggling through the spring term and faced with the inhumane amount …
Thinking of studying psychology at university?
Thinking of studying psychology at university? Here are the benefits of a BPS course.
Being a teacher with a chronic illness.
Illness is other people. Really sick people, not me. I have been a teacher for 16 years and an AS sufferer for 28 years. I have other roles in life; …
The problems with becoming an evidence-based teacher: science and pseudoscience in education
A scientific approach to our teaching methods is a commitment to a systematic way of thinking, a healthy skepticism about ones own ideas and those of other people. It is …
The problem with SCLY 4: Crime and Deviance option.
Dear AQA, I wanted to take this opportunity to give some teacher feedback on the SCLY 4 paper that our students sat this summer. I have been a social science …
Brexit in the classroom.
Like many in our profession, I am gutted. The Brexit result has knocked me for six and I still cannot quite believe it. Clearly, I am in Kubler-Ross’ denial stage …
Hickman out
Our final class is done and the ink is dry on your exam papers. It will be strange to think that we will not be part of each others lives anymore, I will never mark another one of your essays nor will you have to put up with my appalling jokes and long-winded stories.
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