Helping Students Develop Executive Function Skills | Edutopia
This is a well-informed article outlining how to develop higher order thinking skills, either to recover a deficit or to have students thinking on a higher plane. Simple classroom strategies can … Continue reading
Biggest winners and losers from degrees | BBC News
Women studying maths at Oxford and men taking economics at Bristol get the biggest increase in earnings from going to university, says an analysis of salaries at the age of … Continue reading
100 Coping Strategies for Anger, Anxiety, and More
See the full list here: 100 Coping Strategies for Anger, Anxiety, and More | Pathways2Success.com
Classroom Rules… Some Reasons Not to Have Them by David Tow | Edutopia
I’ve always thought the way forward is the self-regulated classroom where the rules come not from discipline enforced on the students, but from self-discipline displayed by them. This also highlights … Continue reading
A History of 50 years of Educational Technology by Tony Parkin
I always enjoy Tony Parkin’s posts, which are informative and provocative. I particularly enjoyed this saunter down the educational technologies of the last fifty years, which corresponds to my experiences … Continue reading
Seven charts on the £73,000 cost of educating a child | BBC News
A The amount spent on schools is a source of frequent controversy. So, where does all the money for educating the country’s children go? School spending is watched closely – … Continue reading
The Best Lessons… Accidents, Design and Spontaneity!
Some of the worst lessons I have taught have been those which I prepared in greatest detail. Like the battle plans that did not survive the first engagement with the … Continue reading
Mapping Our Way Home – The History and Function of Myths in Society
A great article on mapping which might not be quite what you expect from James Sale: Myths: Mapping Our Way Home | The Epoch Times
Dire Predictions About the Future of Traditional Education Models
Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen has some stunning comments to make about traditional educational delivery models, and he is prepared to put a time scale on them. This fall, 19.9 … Continue reading
Energy and Calm: Brain Breaks and Focused-Attention Practices | Edutopia
When presented with new material, standards, and complicated topics, we need to be focused and calm as we approach our assignments. We can use brain breaks and focused-attention practices to … Continue reading
19 Teacher Instagram Hacks That Will Make This School Year The Best One Yet | Buzzfeed
Just a few ways to save your money, time, and patience. View the full list here: 19 Teacher Instagram Hacks That Will Make This School Year The Best One Yet … Continue reading
Growth Mindset: A Key to Future Learning – Sindu Sreebhavan Explains
Success is not the result of mere talent and intelligence. In fact, success is the result of how we fuel our skills with attitudes, beliefs, behaviors and habits. It is … Continue reading
The End of Examinations As We Know Them?
The last few weeks have heralded a lot of national announcements about the traditional examination system. OFSTED has decried the examination factory culture of some English schools and is looking … Continue reading
Children with problems or problem children? | BBC News
There’s nothing pleasant about being on the end of a child’s angry or aggressive outburst – whether you’re a parent or a teacher. And if that outburst happens in a … Continue reading
Militant tenderness: how teachers are rooting out sexism in school | The Guardian
Skinhead English teacher ‘Mr Pink’ is one of many finding ways to stop stereotypes sticking, even among the smallest children. Often it’s about as little as being relentlessly polite – … Continue reading
Taking Notes By Hand May Be Better Than Digitally, Researchers Say | NPR
Researchers Pam Mueller and Daniel M Oppenheimer found that students remember more via taking notes longhand rather than on a laptop. It has to do with what happens when you’re … Continue reading
Students with Anxiety – Some Advice
By all accounts students are feeling record levels of anxiety in their daily lives which makes succeeding in school that much more difficult. Here is some timely advice for the … Continue reading
How do you improve schools? Start by coaching principals, says new study
It is good to see that my new book on future-proofing schools by focusing on the qualities of leadership appears to be on the money… this US study seems to … Continue reading
The Direction of Travel in Educational Technology…
This article outlines the top ten trends in educational technology development. Some perennials remain in the list like Personalisation and Gamification, whilst others make the list by dint of new … Continue reading
What’s It Like to Have Asperger’s? A 9-Year-Old’s Perspective | The TpT Blog
Read this special interview between a mom and her 9-year-old son with Asperger’s as he talks candidly about sensory issues, social struggles, and more. Read the full interview here: What’s … Continue reading
Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Education
I’m always a little sceptical of the claims of the technologists regarding the impact of technologies on learning. Firstly, they are from a technical and not a teaching background Secondly, … Continue reading
Going back to school in a war zone | BBC News
It’s back to school – but for millions the prospect of another school year will not mean new books, bags and subjects. It will be a struggle to get an … Continue reading
The Limitations of Screen-based Learning
An interesting philosophical article pleading for more experiential learning which engages all of the senses rather than the replacement of class-based learning with a screen-based experience. Thank you Graham Brown-Martin … Continue reading
Some thoughts on ideas to bin for the new academic year!
Thanks to Ross Morrison McGill for these quite refreshing ideas on ideas and practices we could do without in the future… 9 Teaching Ideas to Bin in 2018 | TeacherToolkit
John Hattie on Verbose Teachers…
I know I have been guilty of talking too much in classrooms, initially because I mistakenly thought that my role was to teach, rather than enable learning. John Hattie shows … Continue reading
Professional Development Deficiencies: An International Perspective
I’m writing a book in which this is a key theme and found this article very supportive of my experience of the shortcomings of professional development programmes… How often does … Continue reading
An Elective Component to your Curriculum: Promoting Student and Staff Motivation
The element of choice in the curriculum, at least in the UK, is a fairly obscure one. I’ve been involved in only one school in which the students were able … Continue reading
