10 Teaching Ideas to Bin in 2017
Reading Time: 9 minutes What teaching ideas would you like to say goodbye to in 2017?
Tag: Progress over time
Power from the Floor: The Life Of A Deputy Headteacher
Reading Time: 5 minutes What if schools gathered their teacher together regularly to talk about teaching and learning?
The Marking Frenzy
Reading Time: 4 minutes How can we reduce the workload-frenzy of marking for teachers?
Defunct? The Role Of Observations At Interview
Reading Time: 5 minutes I have a bee in my bonnet and a professional-personal dilemma that I’d like to share with my readers.
Getting it right: The importance of observations (Part 1/2)
Reading Time: 7 minutes The role of observations over the last few weeks, if not months, has debated the purpose of observations; the place – if any – for 20 minute observations; progress over time; one-off, snapshot judgements; the purpose of OFSTED and so forth and so forth.
The #UglyTruth revisited: Marking; monitoring and progress by @TeacherToolkit
Reading Time: 4 minutes In this blog, I aim to show how a department can evolve throughout the academic year; given our recent focus on departmental and whole-school, book-monitoring. The evidence is clear … Teachers must mark books.
Stepping Away From Observational Judgements
Reading Time: 7 minutes Conundrum: If we are to truly move away from (one-off) lesson observation judgements – particularly, on teachers of individual lessons – then we must make a start and stop making judgements on teachers in those lessons; and also when providing verbal feedback.
Progress over time #POTteaching: by @TeacherToolkit
Reading Time: 5 minutes These are notes have been shared with our (G2O) Good to Outstanding group. We have asked ourselves at leadership; as well as with our G2O group, what is ‘progress over time‘?