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Why attachment matters
Young people’s ability to form relationships is shaped by their early childhood experiences. I have found that some of the puzzling behaviour we face as teachers can be understood by …
Linear A-levels: Hobson’s choice or Morton’s Fork
The DFE announced that the reform would not dictate a particular model for AS and A-Level programmes, but I think they do. We have a classic example of a Hobson’s Choice or a Morton’s Fork.
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 …
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)
Experiences in the classroom
“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. …
Motivation and peer pressure
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 …
What do I need to do to get an A?
Some anxieties about grading the new A-level specifications.
the unconscious curriculum 