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Bread, Roses and Marshmallows plus a Bit of Vgotsky #Mindset
There’s nothing quite like Vgotsky’s zone of proximal development, the place where a teacher really earns his or her corn, to grab my attention. I first heard of it when learning about the Cognitive Acceleration in Science Programme in the early 1990’s. Dr Barry Hymer, Professor of Psychology in Education at the University of Cumbria brought the memories flooding back in his key note speech. Continue reading
Hattie, Hymer, Tomsett, Cameron and All that Jazz
It’s great to be able to blog about how I’ve shared the stage with John Hattie, John Tomsett, Barry Hymer and the real David Cameron; more rhetoric than reality. Speaking at the same conference isn’t quite the same as sharing the stage but since I spoke in the same room I thought a bit of exaggeration for effect might be allowed. Continue reading
It’s the High Stakes Accountability Not the Testing
Parents keeping their children at home, tests leaked on the Department for Education website and talk of ever increasing stress amongst young children; this testing season has been more fraught than most. Add primary school teachers being uncertain about the standards expected, some standards are unknown with others given too late, and testing a multi-year curriculum which has only been taught for one year; unsurprisingly things are getting fraught.
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