It is with a certain level of dread that I’m approaching this weekend’s #SLTchat. I think I’m beginning to realise how nervous Sir Alex Ferguson must have felt at the end of each premiership season. #SLTchat is an adrenaline fuelled thirty minutes, on a Sunday night between 8:00 – 8:30 p.m., of quick fire twitter responses to two questions. Continue reading
“To plan or not to plan, that is the question”, with apologies to William Shakespeare on whose 450th birthday I’m penning this blog post. Lesson planning has potentially become a tragedy of Shakespearian proportion due to the amount of time teachers invest in it, sometimes with very little return for their efforts, in terms of improved learning in the class room. Continue reading
This will be the first ever guest post on my blog and to be honest I rather set myself up for it. Janet Colledge (@CareersDefender) politely enquired why the various Ofsted Resources I had produced, to help schools and school leaders, didn’t have more of a focus on Careers Education, Information, Advice & Guidance (CEIAG) given the latest pronouncements from Ofsted. This was my reply … Continue reading