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#SOLO Heaven
Over the past fourteen years, as a headteacher, I have led many professional development sessions for staff and introduced a number of different strategies and initiatives. Without doubt the one that is most often been reflected back to me as having the greatest impact was introducing staff to the SOLO Taxonomy. It has helped teachers structure the learning within lessons, projects and schemes of work in a sequential and increasingly complex manner. The structuring and sequencing of learning is at the heart of what great teachers do in their lessons, projects and courses so maybe it should be no surprise of the extent of its impact. Continue reading
#Vis2040: The Inverted Doughnut Curriculum
How will we use the next twenty five years to develop one of the highest performing school systems in the World? There is possibly much we can learn from the analogy of the inverted doughnut (Handy, 1991). This can be applied to the curriculum as well as the role of government in education and our own roles within schools. It is hopeless to ever try to fully describe and then dictate the whole, there is always a need to leave space to allow professional judgement and distinctiveness to enter into our systems. Continue reading
#Vis2040 – Our Top 3 Priorities: Teacher Quality, Quality, Quality
The problem in education is, too often, the current school system doesn’t actually add up to the sum of the parts, that is, the quality of the individual teachers in it are actually better than the system overall. The education system is currently nowhere near producing a synergistic professional capacity greater than the people working in it. Too many teachers are still not able to perform at the optimum level of which they are capable. Over the years politicians and school leaders have introduced a series of piecemeal changes that don’t link together into a coherent whole. What is required is whole system change in a coherent, timely and appropriately paced manner. The time scale for this is decades not years hence the need to start now. Continue reading
Leadership: Being, Knowing, Doing (New Book)
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