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Lesson Planning: To Plan or Not to Plan
“To plan or not to plan, that is the question”, with apologies to William Shakespeare on whose 450th birthday I’m penning this blog post. Lesson planning has potentially become a tragedy of Shakespearian proportion due to the amount of time teachers invest in it, sometimes with very little return for their efforts, in terms of improved learning in the class room. Continue reading
RandD Community: Developing #SOLO Success Criteria
Last year we established Research & Development Communities at St. Mary’s Catholic College. The members of the communities were self-selecting and the aim was to develop and embed best or emerging good practice within the College. Each R&D Community was set up to take forward an idea, innovation or approach by a group of staff that would lead to improved standards of attainment, levels of achievement, student well-being or student personal development. Continue reading
#SOLO Heaven
Over the past fourteen years, as a headteacher, I have led many professional development sessions for staff and introduced a number of different strategies and initiatives. Without doubt the one that is most often been reflected back to me as having the greatest impact was introducing staff to the SOLO Taxonomy. It has helped teachers structure the learning within lessons, projects and schemes of work in a sequential and increasingly complex manner. The structuring and sequencing of learning is at the heart of what great teachers do in their lessons, projects and courses so maybe it should be no surprise of the extent of its impact. Continue reading
Leadership: Being, Knowing, Doing (New Book)
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