The importance of handwriting and spelling by @TeacherToolkit
Reading time, 4 minutes: Handwriting and spelling go hand in hand.
Blogging
All ‘blogging’ related posts from the @TeacherToolkit website. Browse through this category and feel free to comment or share these blogs articles.
#PenATweet by @TeacherToolkit and @JeanEd70
Reading time, 2 minutes: A few weeks ago I posted an article exploring some issues around The importance of #handwriting. It stirred up a huge amount of interest from teachers across the world. This is part 2 of a 3-blog follow-up to my original article …
#CreativeTheory in pictures by @TeacherToolkit
Reading time, 5 minutes: This is what @TeacherToolkit has been up to over the past week and why I continue to support three very important issues in education.
#FathersDay: Reflections on all things fatherhood by @RossMcGill
Reading time, 5 minutes: Today is a very special day for all things fatherhood.
The Last Lecture by @TeacherToolkit
Reading time, 3 minutes: This blog is a philosophical article. It is based on all the teaching and support staff in schools who are leaving their current positions at school (this term). It is also inspired by the story of Randy Pausch and his ‘Last Lecture’.
#EduSwapIt: A social-enterprise project
Reading time, 2 minutes: This is a non-profit social-enterprise project, using The Reciprocation Theory within an educational and cultural context. A deadline has been set for 31st May 2015.
Creative Teaching and Applied Imagination by @TeacherToolkit
Reading time, 5 minutes: The online blogosphere provides teachers with the opportunity to reflect online and use one another to bounce-back dialogue. This reciprocal-feedback is an integral component that defines us as teachers within the profession. I would never have thought such an opportunity existed when I first started out in the classroom in 1993!
Educational Inequality in England by @TeacherToolkit
Reading time, 2 minutes: Fighting the Global Education Reform Movement (GERM).
ONE MILLION reads on @TeacherToolkit
Reading time, 3 minutes: One small tweet for man; one giant leap for education!
Letting Go …
Reading time, 3 minutes: Did you know that there is overwhelming evidence that literacy has a significant relationship to people’s life chances?
How can we tackle inequality in English education? with @TheRSAOrg
Reading time, 3 minutes: A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about ‘raising aspiration and equal-access’ and that the UK education system fails students, from non-selective state schools, entering top universities.
Raising aspirations and equal-access by @TeacherToolkit
Reading time, 6 minutes: “The UK education system faces a range of inter-related challenges: students from non-selective state schools are under-represented at top universities; with schools increasingly accountable for progression to higher education.” (Source)