Tom Sherrington

Coaching Leadership Teaching and Learning 

Talk Up Teaching

9th June 20199th June 2019 @TeacherToolkit 635 Views 3 Comments assumptions, Bad Science, grading lessons, Learning Walks, middle leader, Observations, Reception, Reliable, silly, Teaching and Learning, Tom Sherrington

Reading Time: 3 minutes Why do teachers and schools impose silly ideas on one other?

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Exams Students Teaching and Learning 

Retrieval Practice For Revision

23rd April 201920th April 2019 Helen Sharpe 1319 Views 0 Comments A levels, Andy Tharby, Cornell, exam preparation, Exams, GCSEs, Knowledge organisers, Mark Enser, Memory, misconceptions, quizzing, retrieval practice, Revision, SATs, Tests, The Learning Scientists, Tom Sherrington

Reading Time: 3 minutes How can we support students in their revision?

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Behaviour Students Teaching and Learning 

8 Top Inclusion Tips For Every Class

26th November 201826th November 2018 Helen Sharpe 1717 Views 3 Comments Andy Tharby, cold-calling, Doug Lemov, exit wall, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, inclusion, names, paired discussions, Relationships, Respect, Tom Sherrington

Reading Time: 3 minutes How can we include every learner?

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Curriculum Ofsted Workload 

Can One-Day School Inspections Evaluate Curriculum?

25th November 201814th January 2019 @TeacherToolkit 1700 Views 5 Comments Assessment, Bold Beginnings, Clare Sealy, Curriculum, Curriculum Maps, Data, Department for Education, EBacc, James Pembroke, Knowledge organisers, Knowledge Rich, Matthew Benyohai, Ofsted, Progress, Progress 8, Schemes of Work, School Inspections, Sean Harford, Tom Sherrington

Reading Time: 4 minutes Can school inspections steer focus away from data, towards a broad curriculum?

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Assessment Students Workload 

Teaching Ideas To Bin: Data Drops

29th September 201829th September 2018 John Dabell 1343 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 Conference International 

Do Children Sit Too Many Standardised Tests?

24th March 201826th March 2018 @TeacherToolkit 2835 Views 4 Comments accountability, Assessment, Dame Rachel De Souza, Debate Chamber, Dubai, Education International, Global Skills & Education Forum, high-stakes, Inspiration Trust, Jeanne Allen, Maastricht University, Professor Jo Ritzen, standardised, Susan Hopgood, The Center for Education Reform, The End of Average, Todd L Rose, Tom Sherrington, United Arab Emirates

Reading Time: 2 minutes Is there a better way to assess learning and pupil outcomes?

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Assessment Teaching and Learning 

Homework: Take It Or Leave It

2nd January 20182nd January 2018 @TeacherToolkit 4131 Views 4 Comments #TakeAwayHmk, Alfie Kohn, Ashley Loynton, deliberate practice, Effective Primary Teaching Practice Report, Etta Kravolec, Homework, Ian Kelleher, James Theobald, John Buell, John Hattie, Knowledge, Mark Creasy, Memory, Michael Rosen, Patricia Coffey, Paul Moss, retrieval, Tom Sherrington, UnHomework

Reading Time: 4 minutes Can homework be used as a teaching and learning tool?

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DfE Policies Teaching and Learning 

9 Teaching Ideas to Bin in 2018

1st January 201831st December 2017 @TeacherToolkit 16191 Views 27 Comments #OfSTEDBanners, Amanda Spielman, Appraisal, Assessment, banners, Bin, books looks, coloured pens, Data, Department for Education, Graded Lessons, Jarlath O’Brien, Lesson observations, letterheads, logos, Loic Menzies, Marking, MockSTED, Nick Gibb, Ofsted, Performance-related pay, polarisation, Progressive, PRP, Richard Kennett, Senior Leadership, Teaching Ideas, Tom Sherrington, Traditional, work scrutinies, Workload, Yellow Box

Reading Time: 7 minutes What teaching ideas would you like to say goodbye to in 2018?

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CPD Seasonal Teacher Training 

10 Highlights From My Education Travels

16th December 201716th December 2017 @TeacherToolkit 2295 Views 1 Comment #TTkitCPD, Chris Fletcher, Chris Moyse, Conferences, Culture, diary, Dr Tim O'Brien, Dubai, Education, environment, Graded Lessons, Hull, Keynote, leadership, medication, Ofsted, Ross McGill, School, school buildings, SCITT, Sirius Academy West, teacher, Teacher Training, Tom Sherrington, travel, Wellbeing, Workload

Reading Time: 6 minutes What are your teaching highlights from the term / year?

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Conference CPD 

Just Great Teaching – Part 2

15th October 201713th October 2017 @TeacherToolkit 2650 Views 0 Comments @TeacherHead, @TeacherToolkit, classroom strategies, Conference, Differentiation, Education, Research, Ross Morrison McGill, School, teaching, Teaching and Learning, Tom Sherrington, Training, Workload

Reading Time: 2 minutes What does current research say about effective professional learning?

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Conference CPD Teaching and Learning 

Just Great Teaching

6th May 201713th October 2017 @TeacherToolkit 8182 Views 11 Comments @TeacherHead, @TeacherToolkit, classroom strategies, Conference, Differentiation, Education, Research, Ross Morrison McGill, s training, School, teaching, Teaching and Learning, Tom Sherrington, Workload

Reading Time: 1 minute What does research say about effective professional learning?

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Publication Research 

The Best School in the World!

19th December 201628th September 2017 @TeacherToolkit 6869 Views 1 Comment Alexandra Park School, Assessment, Mike McKenzie, OECD, Pisa, Rankings, Rosslyn Hudson, Tom Sherrington

Reading Time: 3 minutes Where is the best school in the world?

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Assemblies Resources Students 

Resilience Assembly

3rd December 20157th October 2018 @TeacherToolkit 42183 Views 7 Comments Assembly, Kidspot, Potato, Resilience, Straw, Straw and Potato, Tom Sherrington

Reading Time: 2 minutes Are you emotionally, physically and mentally resilient? This is a question I ask students in an assembly.

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DfE 

#EBacc Nonsense

5th November 201528th September 2017 @TeacherToolkit 6350 Views 10 Comments @LeadingLearner, Academic Subjects, character, EBacc, Grit, HeadGuruTeacher, Nicky Morgan, Resilience, Rigour, Stephen Tierney, Tom Sherrington

Reading Time: 6 minutes How does government policy affect the life chances of students in your school?

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Teaching and Learning 

Education Panorama (July ’15) by @TeacherToolkit

5th July 201528th September 2017 @TeacherToolkit 2222 Views 3 Comments Coasting Schools, Debra Kidd, Education Panorama, July, Nancy Gedge, Newsletter, Nicky Morgan, Stephen Tierney, Tom Sherrington

Reading Time: 4 minutes This is my 15th edition of Education Panorama. In total, my newsletters have shared more than 750 educational blogposts from across the world! Here is a summary of what’s been going on in the education sector during the past month …

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Teaching and Learning 

Education Panorama (April ’15) by @TeacherToolkit

30th March 20151st February 2017 @TeacherToolkit 2628 Views 9 Comments CPD, Education Panorama, Newsletter, Ofsted inspections, Recruitment, Teaching and Learning, the past 30 days, Tom Sherrington, Well being

Reading Time: 4 minutes This is my 12th edition of Education Panorama and its one-year anniversary. In total, these newsletters have shared more than

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Ofsted Teaching and Learning 

No More Grades. A Suggestion by @TeacherToolkit

18th March 20159th January 2017 @TeacherToolkit 2640 Views 6 Comments Midlands, Mike Cladingbowl, No More Grades, Ofsted, Reliability, Sean Harford, Tom Sherrington, Validity

Reading Time: 2 minutes This is another blog about lesson gradings and the Ofsted pilot, conducted in the Midlands in June 2014. I also

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