The latest flavour of the month to reduce workload is giving teachers curriculum documents and resources, to save them time and energy. Produce them centrally; share or sell them to the masses and workload will be significantly reduced. Another magic bullet has been fired … and will miss the target. Continue reading
For too long our view of School Improvement has been London centric; London has quite a unique context with its own drivers and challenges. For schools that are educationally isolated, there are things to learn from the approaches of major urban areas; however, the contexts are so different that the improvement journey must also be. Continue reading
Cognitive Load Theory is increasingly influencing people’s thinking and hopefully will also influence their approach to teaching. At its heart, it is a theory about instructional (teaching) design. I find it useful for the classroom; it chimes with me as an ex-Science Teacher. Continue reading