Fads

Assessment Students Workload 

Teaching Ideas To Bin: Data Drops

29th September 201829th September 2018 John Dabell 1075 Views 2 Comments Assessment, Data, data drop, Fads, Formative Assessment, Gimmicks, Myths, Progress, Summative Assessment, target setting, Tom Sherrington, Workload

Reading Time: 1 minute Is collecting data the biggest waste of teacher time?

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Assessment Students Teaching and Learning 

Teaching Ideas To Bin: Work Scrutinies

22nd September 201822nd September 2018 John Dabell 2184 Views 8 Comments book-look, educational fads, Fads, Marking, Multi Academy Trust, Myths, Progress, Summative Assessment, work scrutinies

Reading Time: 1 minute Are book-looks dangerous and unreliable?

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Policies Research Teaching and Learning 

Educational Fad: The Silver Bullet Of Textbooks

17th June 201822nd June 2018 John Dabell 1320 Views 1 Comment ATL, digital textbooks, educational fads, Fads, Myths, Nick Gibb, NUT, Office of Educational Technology, open source, school cuts, standards, Textbooks, Xie and Luthy

Reading Time: 2 minutes Are you a fan of using textbooks?

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Assessment Teaching and Learning Technology 

Educational Fad: iPads

10th June 201822nd June 2018 John Dabell 1266 Views 1 Comment blended learning, Bradley Chambers, Clay Christensen Institute, Daniel Muijs, Digital Learning, digital literacy, digital skills, Donlon, educational fads, Elder and Paul, Fads, Heather Staker, Innovation, iPads, Lady Caroline Lamb, Lord Byron, Los Angeles School District, Michael Horn, Morrison, Myths, Pearson, tech-mania

Reading Time: 3 minutes Have your students come to rely on iPads?

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Assessment Leadership Workload 

Educational Super Fad: Detailed Lesson Plans

20th May 201820th May 2018 John Dabell 1838 Views 2 Comments accountability, Appraisal, David Didau, educational fads, Fads, improvise, Inspection, leadership, Lesson planning, lesson plans, Ofsted, Planning and Resources Group report, Quality Assurance

Reading Time: 3 minutes Do you write detailed lesson plans?

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Blogging 

The Top 10 Blogs of 2017

27th December 201723rd December 2017 @TeacherToolkit 2019 Views 1 Comment 2017, Analytics, Assembly, blogs, Coding, demoti, Differentiation, Fads, Feedback, leadership, Marking, School, SEO, teacher, Top Blogs, Twitter, Wellbeing, Workload, Writing

Reading Time: 1 minute What were the most-read blogs over the last 12 months?

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Research Teaching and Learning 

12 Educational Research Myths

26th December 20175th September 2018 John Dabell 12526 Views 22 Comments ability grouping, Abraham Maslow, Andy Ash, bandwagon, Brain Gym, Chartered College of Teaching, critical consumers, digital natives, Education, evidence, Fads, hierachy of needs, Homework, Howard Gardner, Knowledge, learning pyramid, Learning Styles, multiple intelligences, neuromyth, Parents and Teachers for Excellence, Pete Boyd, pseudo-science, Research, School, teaching

Reading Time: 12 minutes What was the last bandwagon you jumped on?

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Assessment Students Teaching and Learning 

We Need To Pop The Differentiation Bubble!

9th December 201723rd November 2018 @TeacherToolkit 10232 Views 11 Comments #DifferentiationBubble, ability, average, Differentiation, Education, Edward Thorndike, Fads, Freddie McGill, gimmick, Harvard, Instructor, mixed ability, Myths, PIRLS, Pisa, Rankings, School, setting, standardisation, Swimming, teacher, teaching, The End of Average, The Law of Effect, Thomas B. Fordham Institute, Todd Rose

Reading Time: 7 minutes Can teachers actually meet the needs of all their students?

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Politics Research Teaching and Learning 

25 Years of Teaching Fads and Bad Educational Science

10th July 20168th January 2019 @TeacherToolkit 128412 Views 71 Comments APP, Assessing Pupil Progress, Brain Gym, Chinese Teaching, Fads, Gimmicks, Group Work, Hearsay, iPads, Learning Styles, Lollypop Sticks, Middles, Myths, Plenaries, PLTS, Progressive, Starter Activity, Teacher Talk, Textbooks, Traditional, Triple Marking, Verbal Feedback Stamps, Zero Tolerance

Reading Time: 9 minutes Over the past three decades, what fads do you think teachers have wasted their time doing the most?

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Teaching and Learning Workload 

Verbal Feedback Stamp Madness!

27th September 201512th November 2016 @TeacherToolkit 20150 Views 30 Comments Fads, Gimmicks, Marking, Marking Frenzy, Myths, Ofsted, Scrutiny, Verbal Feedback, Workload

Reading Time: 4 minutes Who are you marking for? Tweet this.

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