University admissions: The art of the personal statement | BBC
The half-term holiday is almost over and, for many students in their final year of school, university applications are high on the agenda. So, you’ve chosen your preferred courses and … Continue reading
What the Best Education Systems Are Doing Right
Finnish and Asian educational systems are often quoted as leading the OECD Educational Performance tables and models to aspire to emulate. Such talk is too simplistic as any understanding of … Continue reading
Some Innovative Ideas on Assessment from ImpactWales
Involving students more in the assessment of their own work helps them understand their targets and their personal progression. As they transition from school to work, being able to be … Continue reading
Why Don’t We Differentiate Professional Development? | Edutopia
PD could be more effective if we differentiated it by gauging teachers’ readiness, utilizing their interests, involving them in the process, and providing continual assessment opportunities. Read the full article … Continue reading
Neuroscience should be taught to all teachers to help pupils learn | TES.com
An interesting academic study, recorded in the TES, recounting the need to make teachers more aware of the science of learning so that they can help promote better learning methodologies … Continue reading
Wales school cash reserves drop ‘should ring alarm bells’ | BBC News
Cash reserves held by schools in Wales have dropped by 28% since last year which “should ring alarm bells”, a teaching union has warned. A new report showed schools have total reserves … Continue reading
The Teacher: Are they the only redeeming feature of the educational environment in our schools? | Ac-Ed
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It is fair to say not all learners thrive in the educational environment of the school. Do we though, instead of investigating and remedying this situation,…
Embracing Failure: Building a Growth Mindset Through the Arts
We can be sure that in the course of their time in school, every student will experience failure. It is, after all, a natural and quite acute element of the … Continue reading
Building Schools for the Future in Finland
Building Schools for the Future was a British Labour government initiative to accelerate innovation and rebuild the learning as well as the building architecture of British schools. It was a … Continue reading
Visualizing 21st-Century Classroom Design | Edutopia
These five steps are essential in creating a 21st-century classroom: establishing zones, ensuring resource accessibility, encouraging mobility, igniting inspiration, and fostering respect. Source: Visualizing 21st-Century Classroom Design | Edutopia
The Layout of Your Classroom Determines the Effectiveness of the Learning
To return to an earlier theme regarding the paucity of learning vision of many heads, this often manifests itself with regards to learning architecture and classroom furniture. Too often the … Continue reading
Organisation Culture and Performance Graphic
I’m often amazed when entering schools and other organisations as too how little they question themselves about core values which define their culture. Often they are too busy generating, managing … Continue reading
The Psychology of Leadership: Mental Shifts
This is a useful and informative article from Benjamin P Hardy about mental shifts coming from a background of Emotional Intelligence. His starting point is an observation of the physicist … Continue reading
Conflict Resolution and Restorative Justice
When first appointed to the leadership team of an inner city school, I was struck by the abrasiveness of relationships and recourse to abuse and violence amongst the students. Too … Continue reading
Can You Teach Creativity? Some Thoughts from Ken Robinson
Sir Ken Robinson has spoken at length about creativity and this is his latest digest of thoughts on the issue of whether it can be taught…
Empowering Learning Through Experience
The search for new curriculum approaches, should in many cases, be promoted as part of a desire to ensure that the curriculum offered in schools is not ossified in granules … Continue reading
Home schooling rises – one aspect of crisis in education
There has always been an element of parents who, for one reason or the other, reject the offering of schools as being inappropriate for their child. The reasons to reject … Continue reading
RE:THINKING: A New Film Focuses on How to Get Thinking Back in Classrooms
You would think that explorations of the process of thinking would be central to the experience of every child passing through the school system. However, you would, for the most … Continue reading
