Myths

Ofsted Teaching and Learning Workload 

7 Ofsted Inspection Myths for Teachers

15th April 201914th April 2019 @TeacherToolkit 606 Views 0 Comments 5 Minute Lesson Plan, Angel Solutions, Differentiation, diversity, Equality, Graded Lessons, ICT, iPads, leadership, Lesson Objectives, Lesson observations, Lesson planning, Myths, Ofsted, planning, Workload

Reading Time: 2 minutes Are you producing things in your school that you don’t need to be doing?

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Assessment Students Workload 

Teaching Ideas To Bin: Data Drops

29th September 201829th September 2018 John Dabell 1204 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 2336 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 1442 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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Leadership Research Teaching and Learning 

7 Deadly School Sins

10th June 201811th June 2018 @TeacherToolkit 7433 Views 12 Comments Appraisal, Data, Graham Nuthall, Lesson grading, Lesson planning, Marking, Measures of Effective Teaching, MockSTED, Myths, Ofsted, Professor Robert Coe, sins, Teaching and Learning, Value Added Measures, Work Scrutiny

Reading Time: 6 minutes What if schools could work more effectively?

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Assessment Teaching and Learning Technology 

Educational Fad: iPads

10th June 201822nd June 2018 John Dabell 1407 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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International Research Teaching and Learning 

The Cultural Myths of Teaching and Learning

9th June 201820th July 2018 @TeacherToolkit 3110 Views 1 Comment Adrienne Alton-Lee, Cultural, Cultural Myths, Culture, film, Graham Nuthall, Jean Piaget, Lev Vygotsky, Myths, New Zealand, PhD, Research, Ritual, Tape-Recorders, Teaching and Learning, The Hidden Lives of Learners, University of Canterbury

Reading Time: 9 minutes How does culture shape our understanding of both the teaching and learning process?

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International Research Teaching and Learning 

Educational Fad: Maths Mastery Teaching

15th April 20183rd May 2018 John Dabell 2479 Views 1 Comment cherry-picking, Mastery, Maths, maths mastery, Myths, Professor John Hattie, Shanghai maths, Silver Bullet, Singapore Maths, South East Asian Maths

Reading Time: 2 minutes Why do we turn East for help teaching maths?

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CPD Curriculum Research 

Research Myth 12: We Don’t Need To Teach Facts

1st April 20187th April 2018 John Dabell 1954 Views 2 Comments 21st century skills, Daisy Christodoulou, Education, Google, Knowledge, Myths, Parents and Teachers for Excellence, Schools, self-educate, teaching

Reading Time: 2 minutes Is it a myth that teachers do not need to teach knowledge anymore?

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CPD Research Teaching and Learning 

Research Myth 10: Homework ‘Works’

18th March 201812th March 2018 John Dabell 3266 Views 1 Comment achievement, Alfie Kohn, Alice Keeler, Dylan Wiliam, Homework, Inequality, Matt Miller, Myths, OECD, Professor John Hattie, Research

Reading Time: 1 minute Does setting homework make a difference?

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Assessment Students Teaching and Learning 

What Is Differentiation All About?

5th March 201812th February 2019 Michele Hill 12409 Views 8 Comments barriers, Differentiation, Formative Assessment, Learning Styles, Mastery, Myths, obstacles, personalised teaching, research myth, student voice, Sue Cowley, Summative Assessment

Reading Time: 3 minutes What does differentiation actually mean?

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Research Teaching and Learning 

Research Myth 1: The Learning Pyramid

7th January 20187th January 2018 John Dabell 3657 Views 1 Comment CPD, De Brutckere, Edgar Dale, learning experiences, learning pyramid, Mehrabian myth, Myths, Newman, Research, Will Thalheimer

Reading Time: 2 minutes Have you used The Learning Pyramid?

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Assessment Students Teaching and Learning 

We Need To Pop The Differentiation Bubble!

9th December 201723rd November 2018 @TeacherToolkit 10838 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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Curriculum Ofsted 

High Attaining Students or Rapid Graspers?

22nd July 201722nd July 2017 @TeacherToolkit 3056 Views 0 Comments Conference, Curriculum, Education, high attainers, high attaining, Mathematics, Maths, Myths, National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics, NCETM, Ofsted, rapid graspers, Sean Harford

Reading Time: 3 minutes What does ‘rapid graspers’ actually mean?

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Leadership Policies Teaching and Learning 

It’s Not Statutory

2nd July 20171st July 2017 @TeacherToolkit 7173 Views 2 Comments flaws, Inconsistency, Inspection, leadership, Learning Policy, Marking, Myths, Ofsted, Policies, School Inspections, Teaching and Learning

Reading Time: 4 minutes Should schools have a teaching and learning policy?

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Assessment Research Teaching and Learning 

Verbal Feedback: Research

2nd May 201721st November 2017 @TeacherToolkit 11263 Views 2 Comments Action Research, Assessment, case study, Myths, Ofsted, Research, Teaching and Learning, Verbal Feedback, Verbal Feedback Project, Written Feedback

Reading Time: 3 minutes How can teachers and schools raise the profile of ‘verbal feedback’?

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Politics Research Teaching and Learning 

25 Years of Teaching Fads and Bad Educational Science

10th July 20168th January 2019 @TeacherToolkit 130525 Views 73 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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