Welcome to the Learning Renaissance: Exploring Effective Learning in the 21st century
Welcome to the Learning Renaissance Blog! My name is David Hughes and I am an educator and writer from the United Kingdom. I always said I wouldn’t write a blog … Continue reading
Top 10 World Changing Events of the 20th Century from Cambridge University Press
A free, themed classroom poster each month from Cambridge University Press. Pin and print for use in your classroom! Classroom Posters on Pinterest | Cambridge University Press
7 Deadly School Sins | TeacherToolkit
I was amazed in the course of my school career about how much time was spent in busy work. Things which were done without question, and with little effectiveness. … Continue reading
Future Learning Models – An End to Curriculum!
Seymour Papert was seeing it clearly two decades ago. The pace of change in knowledge is so fast that it is meaningless to build a curriculum on a foundation of … Continue reading
Which Apps Are Safe for Kids? Three Tools That Read the Fine Print for You | EdSurge
Who has the time to read the fine print of terms and conditions… especially when it is an enticing new app which promises you the world? Well we certainly should … Continue reading
The Emotional Energy Matrix in Your School
An interesting article from Joseph Little, Director at CPC SYSTEMS LIMITED on the emotional energy matrix and its applications to organisations. It certainly rings true of every school I’ve worked … Continue reading
Future Proof Your School: Cultural knowledge, in-house experience and project planning methodologies
Every learning organisation has a culture. This forms an underlying set of values and ways of doing things which determines how practice is maintained, and changes resisted or embraced. This … Continue reading
What is Wrong With the School System…
The schools and reformed penal system of the nineteenth century had similar antecedents and moral drivers and came up with extraordinarily similar systems for the management of those in the … Continue reading
Effective Coping Skills
Stress and depression seem to be increasingly impinging on the quality of student and teacher lives. Although the symptoms are readily recognisable, people are less aware of ways to cope … Continue reading
Are there any teachers out there who would encourage their students to pursue teaching?
An interesting article by Sandro Bellantone which hints at what is behind the teacher recruitment and retention crisis… Are there any teachers out there who would encourage their students to … Continue reading
Teacher Mental Health in Your School: An Essential Audit Tool
Many thanks to the redoubtable Steve Waters for his kind permission to reproduce this essential and comprehensive mental health audit tool for your school. The current teacher recruitment and retention … Continue reading
Thought For The Day: Teacher Inspiration
For those days when you question why you are still teaching. It tends not to be the students that get you down, but the administration.
The Reasons Why Teachers (and Others) Leave Jobs…
This has certainly been my experience in education. Sadly, too many schools do not conduct effective induction and leaving programmes so that they can monitor this issue and take steps … Continue reading
Managerialism and Micro-Management
The tendency for educational leaders to be overly-invested in exploring and manipulating data, without recourse to culture and learning represents one of the worst trends in international education. A second … Continue reading
Effective Self-Management
Being able to rationalise all the forces acting on you in times of great pressure is a particularly useful coping strategy and a guide to where you should devote your … Continue reading
Secondary league tables – poor pupils behind for next 70 years | BBC News
League tables go live and BBC News reveals how long it could take for poorer pupils to do as well as the rest. Read the full story here: Secondary tables … Continue reading
Thought For The Day: Sustainability
With the New Year upon us we may reflect on some of the big issues that the world is facing. One of the biggest is our stewardship of the planet … Continue reading
Why Examinations Only Test Increasingly Marginal Skills
Our friends at TeachThought.com came up with this interesting article which crystallises some of our thinking on the subject of examinations and their relevance to 21st century life… 25 Personality … Continue reading
Future Proof Your School 1: Why School INSET persistently fails to raise teaching and learning standards
I would preface my remarks here by saying that the basis for my observations in this article come from practice in the UK. However, conversations with colleagues in Australia, Canada … Continue reading
The Power of Confidence
This is a useful exercise to try in CPD days. Ask your team to write down what they would do if they knew that they could not fail in their … Continue reading
Feedback and the folly of book marking for teachers and students alike
Thanks to Jon Tait for this little insight into a debate that has been going on for generations in education. When I started teaching, I had an expectation, developed from … Continue reading
Permission Slips for Teachers and Students
I was very taken by this sheet by northstarpaths.com, recently shared by Finnish educator Pirjo Suhonen. I suggest we print and distribute to classes and the staff room, particularly the slip … Continue reading
