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Homework: A La Carte or Fixed Menu? #SaturdayThunk
“Homework for infants should be done entirely at their parents’ discretion” wrote Justine Roberts the founder of Mumsnet in a TES article this week. Primary schools are great at setting homework that engages parents or on occasion is actually done by the over eager or guilt ridden parent. Hit secondary school and the mixed fayre continues between the profoundly challenging and the profound waste of time, for both pupils and teachers, homework. Continue reading
Teach Like a Champion Q and A with @Doug_Lemov
I was just about to start our latest CPD session on Teach Like a Champion and with a few minutes to spare I tweeted out a link to a related post. You can imagine my surprise and delight when Doug Lemov tweeted straight back. For the past fifteen years my experience of leading in Blackpool is secondary schools, in particular, had taken a good kicking with very few offers of support. Doug Lemov’s approach and interest in Blackpool was a welcome change. It was the second time in a week that Blackpool had been given positive preferential treatment; the other was from TeachFirst. Continue reading
Teaching In a Terminal Testing World
The pendulum has swung once again and the World of modular examinations is disappearing in favour of the terminal examination. A single terminal examination is certainly more manageable for schools but concerns exist about the lack of a distributed assessment dimension and the removal of certain skills from the assessment. It’s now down to a one off high stakes assessment that can leave teachers and pupils alike pretty nervous and anxious. Continue reading
Leadership: Being, Knowing, Doing (New Book)
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