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Why we need more sociologists not less
I am quite used to being the butt of other teacher’s jokes about my subject. I am lucky enough to teach both sociology and psychology and whilst people often wilfully …
Sir, which universities are the best?
It is UCAS Week for our Year 12 students and we are getting them involved in the nuts and bolts of the UCAS process. By far the most common question …
It is the hope that kills you.
“It’s not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It’s the hope I can’t stand. ~ John Cleese (as Brian Stimpson in the film Clockwise) The polling stations open …
6 ideas for elaborative interrogation
I have been attempting to review how successful I have been at implementing the Learning Scientists Six Strategies for Effective Learning in my lessons. The strategies provide a sound evidence-based structure for …
The unconscious curriculum at Loftus and Friends Conference. Emmanuel Centre. Tuesday 28th March 2017
Today a colleague and I accompanied our Year 13 students to an A-level Psychology conference today and I wanted to snapshot and share the experience. We have been bringing students …
The problem with revision
Re-vision Mid 16th century word meaning to ‘look again or repeatedly (at)’): from French réviser ‘look at’, or Latin revisere ‘look at again’, from re- ‘again’ + visere (intensive form …
For the love of blogging
It has been a year or so since I started blogging about professional issues and I wanted to reflect on what I have learnt and how I felt about the …
Predicted grades – It’s a mug’s game.
To be honest, I have always struggled with predicted grades. It is the classic battle around student data between formative and summative assessment. Teachers want useful formative data to help …
Enthusiatic skepticism: the problem with becoming more research aware, research informed and research engaged.
De omnibus dubitandum. All is to be doubted. Rene Descartes Oh dear, once you open the Pandora’s box of becoming an evidence-based practitioner, it seems impossible to close the …
The problem with data
It is January and I’m up to my eyeballs in data and feeling a bit grumpy about it all. Meetings are consumed with the analysis and woeful predictions about what …
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