The beauty of annotations
Edssential article from @joe__kirby : Like dewdrops on a dragonfly, annotations are microscopic, fragile and beautiful. I’ve come to believe that they’re the most important secret for teaching...
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Edssential article from Grant Wiggins : The research is clear: good feedback is essential to learning at high levels. Alas, too few people understand what feedback is and isn’t. Don’t believe me?...
View ArticleProspero’s knowledge: magic or curse?
Edssential article from @joeybagstock : The pursuit of knowledge I have been thinking a lot about The Tempest recently. Preparing two A2 classes for their imminent exams means I have been immersed in...
View ArticleWhen will … when will .. when will I be subtle?
Edssential article from @Xris32 : An interesting thing happened to me in a lesson: something that I didn’t really expect, or even anticipate in my planning. As I am in the last slog of preparing for...
View ArticleThe Tyranny of the Working Group
Edssential article from @kennypieper : I’m not sure if you would ever call it pressure but, when you start a new school, or even when you begin a new term in August, there is an expectation that you...
View ArticleContemporary educational ideas all my staff should know about
Edssential article from @headguruteacher: As I look ahead to starting my new job at Highbury Grove, I’m thinking about all the conversations we are going to have about learning. To a large degree I...
View ArticleHow We Learn: The Science
Edssential article from @leadinglearner: The summer always provides a welcome break and a some time for reading. Apart from a bit of light reading I’ve enjoyed Switch: How to Change Things When Change...
View ArticleLearning happens in the silence or the Power of Wait Time
Edssential article from @mssackstein: The complex and uncomfortable moments between sounds. It’s the time we make the wrong assumption that nothing is happening. In my earlier career, silence was my...
View ArticleBack to School Part 4: Planning
Edssential article from @learningspy : This series of #backtoschool blogs summarises much of my thinking as it’s developed over the past few years and is aimed at new or recently qualified teachers....
View ArticleGreat teacher talk
Edssential article from @turnfordblog : The ‘war’ on Teacher Talk Time was one of the more depressing developments in my teaching career. Obviously secondary students will rapidly get bored if they are...
View Article10 top tips for teachers heading into school senior leadership teams
Edssential article from @jillberry102 : Be aware that you may now have different priorities You won’t have the same responsibilities as classroom teachers with full teaching timetables, but don’t...
View ArticleEmbracing expansive approaches to the use of lesson observation
Edssential article from @drmattoleary: In last summer’s issue of CPD Matters I discussed the topic of graded lesson observations in further education and argued that the continued emphasis on measuring...
View ArticleGCSE Outcomes and Transition Matrices: A data tool every teacher can use
Edssential article from @headguruteacher : As most people recognise, when evaluating the degree of success in a set of GCSE outcomes we need some sense of the baseline before we start making...
View ArticleTen tips for new teachers, three for new History teachers, and two targets...
Edssential article from @HFletcherWood : I received too much advice at my Teach First Summer Institute: much of it appeared contradictory, all of it was rooted in the giver’s context. For some years...
View ArticleBennett’s tenets: My behaviour guides for going back to school
Edssential article from @tombennett71: It’s back to school for many teachers next week – including me – and most of us are already walking like shades through the crepuscular hinterland, the limbo that...
View ArticleWHO’S RESPONSIBLE FOR MY STUDENTS’ FOLDERS?
Edssential article from @HFletcherWood : My students’ folders have check sheets, documenting their state and (usually) academic targets). With Sayers’ words in mind, I invite readers to examine this...
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Mythbusting…
Edssential article from @shaun_allison : Last week I gave a talk to our new staff about teaching. The night before, I asked the good people of twitter for their input: It caused a bit of a discussion!...
View ArticleDon’t Expect Novices to Learn by Doing What Experts Do
Edssential article from @mr_chadwick : In Daniel T. Willingham’s book ‘Why Don’t Students Like School’ he devotes a whole chapter to the myth that the way to get someone to become an expert is to copy...
View ArticleMy 7 rules for leading when it is hard
Edssential article from @RosMcM: There has never been a time for me when it hasn’t been hard. Towards the end of my first headship, after OFSTED had been extremely complimentary about the turnaround...
View ArticleLESSON STUDY
Edssential article from @mj_bromley : I’ve created an infographic to accompany this article – download it for free here. At Easter, I wrote an article for Sec Ed magazine about lesson observations. The...
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