A guide to this blog. I write about curriculum, teaching, leadership, English and reading. You can read about what education means to me and why I do what I do here. Shaping the curriculum with memory.

This week, we carried out our first set of nationally standardised assessments. These show the progress our pupils have made throughout the year in reading, English and Maths. How to get them reading. Which diagnostic assessments are useful? Vocabulary a.

Wisdom rediscovered for the twenty-first century. The Dangers of the Superteacher Model. There is a certain type of book in which superteachers are held before our eyes as the example to follow. They work all hours, organise wonderful trips, create their own resources, produce professional quality theatre and musical extravaganzas . There is a moral imperative for those with families to achieve some kind of reasonable trade-off. Equally, individual teachers creating their own wonderf.

Reflections on schools, teaching and education. A healthy approach to testing. In England, testing is often seen as being at odds with the true purpose of schooling. Friends of mine in both the primary and secondary sector have left the profession, or moved into the independent sector, to escape the grip that testing holds over state education. So what would a healthy approach to testing look like? A healthy approach to testing also involves th.

Around the world in 180 days. Very curious, very curious, said Passepartout to himself, on returning to the steamer. I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new.

The suggestion here is that if the data gets worse for four years in a row then that is a genuine trend, caused by something that the school is doing wrong. This year, I have t.

An effective strategy that teachers feel guilty using. We Need to Do Something, Dept.

Continuing Professional Development and Learning Blog. A visit to Dixons Trinity Academy, Bradford. Moving to a knowledge-led, knowledge-rich, knowledge-based curriculum. School visits for MFL CPD. What Books Should a School-kid Read? January 6, 2016.