This morning I really enjoyed reading Five Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Teaching by Carl Hendrick and then David Didau’s Practice vs Talent: 5 Principles for Effective Teaching. Others have followed or maybe preceded these; May’s #blogsync is “five things” or #5Things. Feel free to join in. Continue reading
With a week to go before the Key Stage 2 SATs it was probably timely for the Education Select Committee to release its report on Primary Assessment. Continue reading
With a snap General Election announced the political parties will be hurriedly preparing their manifestos and thinking up key sound bites to woo the electorate. Most recent manifesto pledges have left me somewhere between despair and anger. As such I thought I’d get in early and propose a few for consideration. Continue reading