Most teachers’ appraisal objectives boil down to get some decent results and look to improve your teaching; we’re going to consult on setting these for all teachers, via the policy, as stated below. Now with that done we can focus our time and efforts on helping everyone teach that little bit better. Continue reading
I wish I could tell you how long it took to pull together this video but since I didn’t do it I can’t. Thanks to Liz Horne, Assistant Head teacher, who spent hours and hours on it; we’ve brought alive our Teaching, Assessment & Learning Policy. Continue reading
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