LeadingLearner

Planning Thinks for Teachers

This is one of a series of short blogs to hopefully keep you thinking about teaching, assessment and learning.  It jumped into my head when looking at one of my daughter’s birthday presents; a book with a series of writing prompts and some space to make notes. Continue reading →

Reading Your RAISE Right

It’s raining RAISE at the moment.  November is the month statistical analyses and dashboards become the group reader in schools across the land.  Many people have a problem navigating these number dense documents.

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A Teacher’s Top 3 Must Haves

With the pantomime season almost upon us; if you had three wishes to magically acquire “must haves” for a teacher what would you go for?  The only certainty about this post is I’m almost certainly wrong but thought I’d offer it to get people to reflect, disagree and debate.  Identifying only three is artificial but it does mean you have to develop a sense of priorities.  You can’t go on writing an endless list.  Here’s mine for what they are worth. Continue reading →