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Goodbye to all that … for now.
I have just resigned as Director of Key Stage Five and requested to work a 0.6 contract. I am left with mixed emotions about it all, so I thought I …
Muddling through somehow
Simon Foster: It’ll be easy peasy lemon squeezy. Toby: No it won’t! It’ll be difficult difficult lemon difficult! In the Loop Teaching is not fun at the moment, it is difficult, difficult lemon …
researchED Loom Durrington: The virtual one.
What should I do with my time during the Covid-19 pandemic? Having realised I am hopeless at DIY tasks and that I am annoying my nearest and dearest; I decide …
Go Johnny go go: starting anew.
I have just started in a new school and it feels both familiar and strange at the same time. The rudiments of the job are the same; classroom, kids and …
ResearchEd 2018: The revolution continues.
September is a cruel month in many ways but one if its more established delights is that ResearchED is at the beginning. The jewel in the edu-geek’s conference crown. 2018, …
BPS Digest: How to study
This is all a bit brilliant so had to repost. Bravo BPS. Can psychology help us to learn better? Our presenter Christian Jarrett discovers the best evidence-backed strategies for learning, including …
The problem of linear A-levels and how cognitive load theory may help us.
Whilst I have many anxieties about moving to linear A-levels (see previous blog), I think this period of change is an ideal time for us to use evidence-based approaches to …
Rebuilding Curriculum and Assessment CPTSA Conference 3rd February 2018.
Despite the miserable weather and end of term exhaustion, I had the pleasure of attending and speaking at the CPTSA Conference on Saturday 3rd February 2018. I think this was …
Grief, loss and change.
“To live is to endure loss, repeatedly. Without the ability to bear this nothing new would exist. Once something has died, we can mourn it, making space within ourselves for …
The problem with UCAS.
I think it is time we reviewed the usefulness of our university admissions process. I propose the current system is stressful, inefficient and unnecessary when there is clearly another way. …
the unconscious curriculum 