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Reading time, 3 minutes: This is quick follow-up blog to this post; A Valid Landscape for Teaching and Learning that I presented at @Optimus_Ed conference last week and at the @PiXLClub national conference today. In the is blog you will be able to download my full presentation and seek clarification (or at least my view so far) regarding a […]
Reading time, 16 minutes: Where would I be without Twitter? Where would my own extended (PLN) Professional Learning Network be without the 140 character responses from my colleagues dotted all over the world?
Reading time, 3 minutes: Last week, as part of our on-going staff development programme, I asked teachers to complete a Self-Review against the Teaching Standards. The intended outcome was to generate a Needs Analysis for appraisal and CPD. This was completed using Blue Sky software.
Reading time, 2 minutes: What does lesson planning data tell us?
Reading time, 5 minutes: The 5 Minute Lesson Plan is now available in digital format! Following a beta testing group, and after 14 months of planning, I am pleased to offer a finished product.
Reading time, 2 minutes: This week I spoke in three key stage 3 assemblies at school.
Reading time, 9 minutes: Despite a pile of education books reaching in-excess of 20-high, the only book I’ve managed to read from cover to cover this summer is David Didau’s, The Secret of Literacy. This blog is a review.
Reading time, 7 minutes: As the debate for Teachers Pay Teachers gathers pace here in the UK, I’d like to add my own little twist on the debate and offer some clarity.
Reading time, 5 minutes: It’s taken me 4 days to break my ‘one-blog-a-week’ policy/promise over the summer. Why? Well, today – a week too late – I saw this from TSL Education’s Chief Executive Louise Rogers, regarding changes to the TES Resources website.
Reading time, 3 minutes: The world of lesson observation is evolving and changing for the better.
Reading time, 3 minutes: It may be that 2014 will be seen as a pivotal year in changing how we judge the quality of teaching. The move from grading individual lessons to viewing teaching, students’ work and progress over time and in a more sophisticated way has only just begun.
Reading time, 4 minutes: How do you prepare for leading school assemblies?