This term I have mostly been getting myself in a pickle about measuring student progress. I want to do it with integrity, reliability and validity but I wonder whether all three of these are possible.
To mark, or not to mark, that is the question.
“In England we spend preparation time marking, in Germany they practise the exposition and in Japan they think up good questions.”
Anxieties about change.
I am in a genuine conundrum that I cannot quite resolve with my usual pondering and mulling over of things.
I rather liked this and pinched it from David Didau. Nothing new but a review of the scientific consensus on how we learn and what teachers can do. I also …
I do like an occasional moan about work (ahem); overwhelming workload, confused communication and the grim reality of choices that have to be made in times of austerity and finite …
Stationery is not just stationery to teachers, it takes on this other life.
“No man is an island, and yet we wish to believe that we are independent of forces of which we may not be conscious either from outside ourselves or within. …
Joe Kirby Odysseus faced the peril of the Sirens and their irresistible song. He told his men to fill their ears with wax so they would …
Some anxieties about grading the new A-level specifications.
the unconscious curriculum 