High Expectations? Hmmm
Edssential article from @Teachric : Item 1 for discussion: “have high expectations of children and young people” This used to be the first teaching standard back in the day when there was a proper...
View ArticleHow can I mark books without burning out?
Edssential article from @joe__kirby : Imagine you have five classes of thirty students, who you teach three times a week. Marking their books is the bane of every English teacher’s life. To mark every...
View ArticleWhat’s the secret to assessing pupil progress every lesson?
Edssential article from @Kris_Boulton : Use exit tickets to get a snapshot of what every student took away from your lesson This is the single most powerful thing I’ve done all year, from lesson one,...
View ArticleApplying Cognitive Psychology to Enhance Educational Practice
Edssential article from Robert Bjork : The primary goal of this research, which is funded by the James S. McDonnell foundation, is to promote learning and memory performance within educational contexts...
View ArticleMaking the best use of exam questions
Edssential article from @york_science : I have written before about Diagnostic Questions. A good diagnostic question can reveal a lot about a student’s thinking. Many of the questions we have written...
View Article7 Key Characteristics of Better Learning Feedback
Edssential article from @teachtought : Whether or not the feedback is just “there” to be grasped or offered by another person, all the examples highlight seven key characteristics of helpful feedback....
View ArticleSeven Levers of Highly Effective School Leaders
Edssential article from @joe__kirby : Highly effective school leaders prioritise what most improves school culture and teaching. How well do American books about teaching transfer across the Atlantic...
View ArticleOFSTED ‘Outstanding’…who me? Never!
Edssential article from @MsFindlater : Observations can be one of the most stressful experiences in a teachers job. As an NQT and well into the first couple of years of teaching, observations were the...
View ArticleA Letter to my NQT Self
Edssential article from @chrishildrew: Dear Chris, It’s 1997, and you’re about to start your teaching career. In May, as you were completing your PGCE, Tony Blair led the Labour Party out of 18 years...
View ArticleFrightened People Ticking Pointless Boxes
Edssential article from @BarryNSmith79 : I earn a crust from doing inset. Yes, one of those charlatans that “teaches teachers how to teach” ‘cos he hasn’t got a clue how to hack it in the real world....
View ArticleMosquito Moments – When Leaders Stop Listening
Edssential article from @kevbartle : First of all, let me say that I think most members of senior leadership teams within schools do the job for all the right reasons. They do it because they care...
View ArticleThis Much I Know About…Developing Leadership and Shaping the SLT
Edssential article from @johntomsett : The days of having to time-serve before gaining a leadership post in schools are well gone; if you’re good enough, you’re old enough. I was fortunate to be given...
View ArticleShould we use questions to teach? – Part 1
Edssential article from @Kris_Boulton: I had intended this to be a three part series, however while trying to write the final post today, I realised I had left out an extremely important piece of the...
View ArticleShould we use questions to teach? – Part 2
Edssential article from @Kris_Boulton : Yesterday I kicked off a lengthy post on questioning. Today I conclude it. What we have up to now is an amorphous outpouring of thoughts on questions; time to...
View ArticleHow can schools create a vibrant staff culture?
Edssential article from @joe__kirby : “School leaders must never forget: nothing is more important than your people” Paul Bambrick-Santoyo A speech I heard last year by Dame Sally Coates, headteacher...
View ArticleLesson study and how it can work for you
Edssential article from @murphiegirl : A few years ago I came across the methodology known as Lesson Study. It’s been used with great success in the US and Japan in the last 10-15 years and it involves...
View ArticleA question of planning and waiting
Edssential article from @yogspiers : If a football manager gives an incredible speech at half-time and his team still go on to lose was the speech a waste of time? Was the speech not really very good?...
View ArticleUsing a ‘Taxonomy of Errors’ to Enhance Student Responses
Edssential article from @CanonsOPP : I am writing this post to outline and to describe a technique I learnt some years ago from a long-forgotten colleague that has had a very positive impact on my...
View ArticleHomework Excuse Notes
Edssential article from @miss_mcinerney : One of the problems of my first year in teaching was getting students to do homework. More specifically, I struggled keeping tabs on students who didn’t do the...
View ArticleAdvice to new senior leaders
Edssential article from @LeadingLearner : #SLTChat is providing a whole raft of great issues to blog on and I’ve picked up another one this weekend proposed by @ChrisHildrew. He posed the question,...
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