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The stories we tell ourselves about education
I love a good story, well who doesn’t? Good storytelling is good for the soul, helps us make sense of ourselves and connect to a wider world.
Reciprocal vulnerability
This term I have been trying to notice things a bit more. I have tried listening, not the usual head-nodding and jumping to conclusions listening. But I have been really …
The problem with mocks
I have just finished marking my mocks. It is a bit depressing if I am honest. It would seem very little of my teaching or advice about the exams has stuck.
It is ok, I tell myself …
Anti-minotaur: The myth of student progress.
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.
The problem with marking
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.”
To go linear or not go linear: that is the question.
Anxieties about change.
I am in a genuine conundrum that I cannot quite resolve with my usual pondering and mulling over of things.
The Science of Learning
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 …
5th October – World Teacher Day!
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 …
Classroom as laboratory (2)
The Stationery Ritual
Stationery is not just stationery to teachers, it takes on this other life.
the unconscious curriculum 