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
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
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
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
Engaging with E-learning
Too often in education, Information Technology has been sold on its features. These may be very enticing all-singing, all dancing Technicolor elements, but at no point does it demonstrate achievable … Continue reading
Sabotaging Your Own Classroom!
These are all pretty effective ways to undermine your work in the classroom… usually it takes years to appreciate this. Middle school veteran Jennifer Gonzalez identifies 10 ineffective habits new … Continue reading
Finland: Culture, Trust and Education
Among the most significant features of Finnish education is not found in the classroom, or even in the school, but in the role of education at the heart of the … Continue reading
An Open Invitation from the Learning Renaissance to Join Our International Reflective Learning Community Resource
If you represent a school or other learning establishment, you are very welcome to include a link to the Learning Renaissance on your online Continuing Professional Development (CPD) library. There … Continue reading
INSET Days and How Not to do them!
The start of a new term means there is likely to be an INSET day in the offing… Ross Morrison McGill wrote this article that got me thinking about the … Continue reading
New Year Resolutions…what to bin to give yourself more creative space
We all start the New Year with strong resolutions in mind. We often find that they don’t last the first week back at school! Ross Morrison McGill of Teacher Toolkit … Continue reading
Scaffolding Discussion: Socratic Method
If ever there was a time when students need to know how to conduct a discussion in a rational evidence based way then it is now. Web 2.0 has allowed … Continue reading
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
