Social Justice in Your School: Aim For Liberation
Where is the focus on social justice in your school? This question goes beyond the issue of Equal Opportunities as it addresses the cultural drivers of your school – the … Continue reading
Teacher Wellbeing | Ac-Ed
Originally posted on ace-d:
Are you hiding how you feel? I want to add to the discussion about teacher wellbeing, to explore the signs and symptoms and then offer some…
40 Ways to Stay Creative | Layerform.com
Thank you to Layerform.com who seem to have nailed this topic for us. It works equally well for adults and young people. Source: 40 Ways to Stay Creative | Layerform Design … Continue reading
An Open Invitation to Schools to Add the Learning Renaissance to their Online CPD library
The Learning Renaissance grew out of research I was already doing on the future of learning. Seeing as I had already done the research I was wondering how to capture … Continue reading
Reluctant learners (students and teachers) and what you can do about them…
In any educational setting there will be learners who are not fully engaged in the learning process for a variety of reasons. If you have led an INSET session, you … Continue reading
The Future of Learning… As Seen From the Nineteenth Century!
I came across this woodcut from a nineteenth century French conception of the future classroom of the year 2000. I found it acutely depressing in its conception for a number … Continue reading
Pupils shut in isolation rooms for hours, teachers say | BBC News
Children are being held in isolation rooms for as long as six hours a day for minor infringements of behaviour policies, a teachers’ conference heard. National Education Union delegates described … Continue reading
Time Management Choices
We sometimes constrain the effectiveness of our action by adopting particular strategies for managing our workload. If we fail to work systematically we are exacerbating our stress levels and reducing … Continue reading
Attributes of Successful Schools in the Digital Age | The Tech Edvocate
I think this may be rather putting the cart before the horse in terms of assuming the significant attributes of schools are their use of digital technologies. It takes more … Continue reading
The Qualities of Leadership
I’ve often been amazed at how ineffective leaders become when they are consciously trying to lead. They become preoccupied with the look, rather than the substance of things, about their … Continue reading
Worsening child poverty harms learning, say teachers | BBC News
Poverty is harming children’s capacity to learn and it’s getting worse, suggests a survey of teachers. Pupils who go to school hungry from cramped, noisy homes where they can’t sleep … Continue reading
Current CPD Pathways in UK Schools
This useful overview of current CPD pathways comes from Quintin Kynaston. One important element not touched on here is the format of the CPD in terms of it being an … Continue reading
How Finland’s Amazing Education System Works | Big Think
Finland’s education system works because its entire structure has been around several core principles. First and foremost, equal access to education is a constitutional right. Another important principle is that … Continue reading
The International Baccalaureate: Moving Learning in the Right Direction
I first came across the International Baccalaureate (IB) whilst on secondment to the RSA Academy in the West Midlands. Having adopted the Opening Minds curriculum at KS3 and KS4, the … Continue reading
Ofsted inspection grades challenged | BBC News
Parents should have more reliable measures than Ofsted grades to compare schools in England, says a report from a new education think tank. The EDSK report challenges the accuracy of … Continue reading
Exercise and Well-Being (3) | BelievePHQ
Guidance for good mental health for teachers from Believe PHQ.
Exercise and Well-Being (2) | BelievePHQ
Another exploration of the benefits of exercise on mental health and well-being from BelievePHQ.
Exercise and Well-Being (1) | BelievePHQ
Thanks to Jon Tait for sharing this infographic from @BelievePHQ, which is as appropriate to staff as students.
The internet is the end of libraries? Not in Finland!
You might be forgiven for thinking that the Tory government subscribed to the view that Libraries were redundant given the ubiquitous nature of the internet. Finland begs to differ and … Continue reading
17 Teaching Principles of Effective Instruction | TeacherToolkit
Thanks to Ross Morrison McGill’s powerful Teacher Toolkit site for republishing this document which first appeared in the American Educator in 2012, and providing a commentary to go with it. … Continue reading
Thought For The Day: The Value of Play
The most progressive and effective learning systems recognise this in their statutory provision of early years education and the age at which it commences. Meanwhile in the UK, the Tory … Continue reading
More Mistakes…
I’ve always been of the opinion that we learn so much more from our mistakes tan we do from our successes. In part that is why I’ve made so many … Continue reading
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