The strength of feeling I have against the EBacc interests me. As mentioned before it is my line in the sand, the issue that would cause me to walk away from education after thirty years. It’s certainly not about the subjects included within it, they are all great, and it’s not simply the subjects excluded from it, they’re great as well. Continue reading
It’s that time of the year again when my mind focuses on next September and having enough teachers, of the right quality, in front of our pupils at the start of the academic year. We appoint early, we seek to attract the brightest and the best and we’ve always over appointed. Continue reading
The gift that keeps on giving was a marketing slogan for the phonograph but could equally be applied to the teaching and development of metacognition and the ability of pupils to self-regulate. It is one of those low maintenance high impact strategies which reward teachers, for their initial investment of time, many times over. It’s what I think of as a high impact class room multiplier. Continue reading