General interest
Shadowlands; theatre of tears
Summer Craze?
Primary Colours An anniversary blog
Of Molehills and Mountains
Assessment for Learning without Limits a review
Collections
Education is (not) a religion
Looking forward in Anger
Education; problem or project management?
Autonomy or automata?
A letter to my MP, re Brexit.
Wrecksit thoughts
Somme-bre Mood
Education and Bletchley Park
When Blunkett Trumped education
Behind the Throne?
Talking Heads; microphone "diplomacy"
Talking Heads Avatar "Policy"?
Manifestos...
Reasons to be Fearful?
I am, Really, Absolutely...
Absolutists; sledgehammers Cracking Nuts?
Thinking about stuff
Investigation or research?
Trust
#Twitteratichallenge
On getting older
I don't remember learning
Education purpose?
Education needs a cunning plan...
Interpreting Principles into Practice
Principled education?
The answer is not 11plus.
Educating humanely
A case for moderation
Growing up
Life, Decisions and Character
Grit and resilience
Growing up is becoming so very hard to do
On resilience update
Four Remarkable Women.
Seeing the world differently
Education; through the looking glass
Life's no panto
The bodger came to town.
Punch and Judy reflections
A week away
Tribal memory
Teaching is a team Game
Collegiate Teachers
Virtuosity; the search for your own tune
The mastery mystery
On Workload
Workload Thoughts 21.6.17
Do some systems Embed Excess Workload?
I'm free!
Calling a Spad a Spad; emperor's new clothes
Progressively better
Research, anecdote, research...
“growing” education?
In sickness and in health
Teaching and Doctoring
The truth is…
100 word solution
Single question questionnaires
On Childhood
Childhood, Experience, Knowledge
Mapping Childhood to Seven
Mapping Childhood to Eleven
Social Mobility or Disposable Income?
Life Chances, or "Happenstance"
A Cautionary Tale; are they ready?
Little Lad
An open letter
A new generation
Getting better at getting better
On Checklists
Talking differentiation, on a Saturday. #pedagoohampshire2016
Thinking TLT16 (Teaching and Learning Takeover)
Being reflective on “retirement”
Reflections New Year 2017
Past, present and Possible Futures #nurture16/17
Stocktaking #nurture15/16
Nurture 14/15
#teacher5aday
#teacher5aday week 1
#teacher5aday update2
#teacher5aday Visages de Rouen
#teacher5aday Midway reflections
#teacher5aday Succeeded!
teacher5aday end of month review
teacher5aday End of holiday update
#teacher5aday annual review
French lessons Volunteer English week in the Limousin
Lost in translation?
The value of Downtime
Summer holidays 2016
BonnesVacances
Brexit Wrecksit; Dream breaker
On being Human
Well-being thoughts #teacher5adayslowchat
Strife; a play or Real Life?
The kindness of friends, Neighbours and Strangers
How To Survive in Teaching, a review and Reflection
It's all about the People... PedagooHampshire2018
Once Upon a Time...
Education House of Cards? Workload...
Reinventing the Wheel, or Refining Systems?
On qualified Teacher Status
Retention and "Golden Handcuffs"
The Importance of Being (a) Mentor
NQT; getting that first job.
Everyone starts somewhere
Every day and In every way
Would you want to be a child in your class?
My story; no mystery
Anniversaries; personal histories
Time to Stand and Stare
A Little Bit of Futurology
A lesson from Gran
Homage to learning
What do I know? #wdik
Pace Yourself
To Whom It May concern
On headship
I am not an expert
Personal development
Teach, teacher, "Teachest"
Why teach?
Why Stay In Teaching?
If you can keep your Staff...
Meetings
An oblique look at Inset
A chip off the old block
Copenhagen; Nuclear Physics and Partner Talk
Mentoring Mentors
Planning For Students
Mentoring and Coaching
Mentors; Developing In-house Tutors?
Mentoring can be excellent CPD.
Mentoring; Modelling, Moderating and Monitoring
On "mentoring Schools"
Mentors 24652
Mentoring and Apprentice Teachers
Moderation, mentoring and Ofsted...
A Parrot on the Shoulder
CPD; Shared enterprise and Expertise?
2018; A Year For Dialogue (as CPD)?
Professional Talkers?
Teacher-Think; more Metacognition...
Holes, gaps and Cavities
1000 years of experience.
#edn1000years gallery1
#edn1000years gallery2
#edn1000years gallery 3
An enemy of the People?
Parachute teachers, or patient gardeners?
What do you mean, unsatisfactory?
Schools are organic
Take a look at Yourself
Don't set up Schools to fail
In praise of Governors
Self-improvement; Schools and People
Why Local Management of Schools is Essential
I nearly Walked Away...
Educational Jigs?
#29daysofwriting on @staffrm; week 1 summary (9days)
Week 2 on @staffrm #29days of writing (10-14)
Week 3 on @staffrm; days 15-20 #29daysofwriting
Week 4 on @staffrm #29daysofwriting 21-29
The day that Primary Rocked
Primary Rocks Live; Powerpoint
Teaching and Learning
Curriculum 2018?
A "Dinosaur" Looks at Curricular Extinction
Because; Rational Decisions
Bringing children into Their World
Review; The Ultimate Guide to Mark Making by Sue Cowley
Education; Two Sides of the Coin
Longitudinal thinking
Do system Changes Militate Against School Development?
Education Knockabout
Let teachers Think
Permission to think?
How Did You Do That?
One size Approaches don't suit Every Situation
Textbooks Don't Teach
Curriculum and Progress?
Cultural Capital
On being a "Progmatist"
In the beginning? looking back 120 years. Referencing John Dewey.
Nit Picking And the National Curriculum
Nit Picking and the Primary Curriculum
What do (I think) I know?
Building capacity
Hopeful journeying
Apprenticeship to mastery?
Towards a Learning and Teaching Policy
a simple view of teaching?
Teaching and Learning; a process diagram
Personalisation is a total philosophy.
How Personal Can it Get?
Performance pressures.
the middle Muddle
Life is group-work.
Thinking, working and Playing Together
Groupwork; Talk your Thinking
Interventions
Those early years! What are they Thinking?
You can't see me learning
Small thinking harms education
Plug-ins can (seriously) damage your (system) health.
Immediacy effect; Busyness
Dependence interdependence independence
On independence
Independence
On Baselines
Primary Curriculum; A Child's World?
Challenge?
Challenge Curriculum
Collaboration + communication = Better Outcomes?
Task setting; the key to progress?
Tasking for challenge.
Challenge Might lead to Progress
Challenge; something to think about?
Absorbed
Comparing Children; Superficially Attractive?
DIY; Process and Processing
Process and Product can = quality
Quality; a work in progress
Quality, a Long and Winding Road...
Making progress
Processing and Thinking Time
On Helping Working Memory
On knowing enough and Higher Achievement...
Thinking time and Stress Points
Learning to think for yourself
A question of timing?
Educating By the book?
The loneliness of the long distance worksheet
Just the ticket
Growth Mind-set reflections
Exploring and questing
Talk Thinking
Keep Talking thinking
Whose aspiration is it anyway?
Challenge and Improve
Expectation and anticipation; establishing baselines.
Expecting something?
Feed Forward Expectations?
On creativity
Create or creativity
Projects need direction
Open book? Teaching as storytelling
An oral tradition?
strategic Planning for Learning over Time
Order, organisation and a Clear Narrative
Top down order and organisation
Director of education or scriptwriter?
Planning Permission?
Myopic planning?
Simplify to amplify
Teacher Interpreters
WALT/WILF/LO/SC?
Don't assume
Pride's place
Displaying ideas
If you’re happy........?
Experiential learning
A sense of place 1
A sense of place, locality
Developing and Scaffolding Questions
Differentiation explored
Differentiation as informed dialogue?
Deconstruction and memory
Take a risk?
The search for quality
Thinking Plenaries
Interleaving, or going back over things?
Learning between lessons
Homework?
Talking homework
Marking; keep it simple
Marking
Is marking moderation step 1
Back to marking
The art of Assessment
Memories and Dual Coding
Imagery
Talk Your Thinking; photograph Prompts.
unpicking progress (for ITE trainees).
Thinking logs; (dia)logue?
Vakuous
Learning from PE teaching
Boys; same but different?
Transition/Transfer
Education 4-18; a pedagoo (local) talk
Teachers and Technology
Thinking Transition in Bath; Learning First
When is a teacher?
TA or not TA; that is the question.
teacher becomer
Thinking back and Making a Start.
Build a Teacher; Structuralist to holistic
ITT observations
ITE short experience organisation
School Direct; Half Way There
Evidence of Impact? Rational thinking...
Learning To Fly Solo
teaching Standards 2012; aide memoire
24652 ; Teacher Standards
24652 revisited
Bullseye or Double Top? Build a teacher, structuralist to holistic.
Thinking lessons; teaching standards
Investigative Incrementalist
Why Employ Thinkers if you Don't Let Them Think?
Teaching is a human(E) Act
BrewEd early Years January 2019
Wroxham reflections
Developing Lifelong learners
Inspection/judgement or audit/support?
Running an After school club...
Don't Mention...
Expect the unexpected?
Five Minute Fillers
Stability and sustainability?
SEND, Behaviour, Inclusion
Inclusion; Pandora's Box?
Practical SEN(D) Linking ideas into a coherent whole.
SEND 2014; possible class teacher Crib sheet.
Inclusion on the Agenda
So you think you are an Inclusive School?
Inclusive Learning Environments
Inclusion; Parent Partners
Inclusion; Community
Inclusion; management and governance
Inclusion; Children's Attitudes
Inclusion; Children and Progress
Inclusion; Teachers
Inclusion at Exemplar Primary
Inclusion is just doing your job
Inclusion; does every Child Really Matter?
Inclusion and SEN
SEN means real People
The 2014 SEN framework
SEN changes for 2014
Top Tips for Inclusion
Inclusion reads Factual- reference
Books for Inclusion Fiction
Inclusion by nancy Gedge
Better Behaviour; Jarlath O'Brien a Review
It's Good To Talk
When is SEND?
Individual needs
Individual needs; fine tuning
SEN Radio?
SEND Building an individual case study.
SEND Tic-Tac-Toe
ITE and SEND
Built in, not bolt on; SEN reflections
Bridge Over Troubled Water; SEND reflections 2
Worrying about Children with SEN?
SEND 2018; Back To The Future?
Voice activated
What's on the label?
SEND Teachers as investigators
Listening To the Experts
On exclusion; a Closed File
When The Adults Change, everything Changes
Managing behaviour
Behave, or else...
Behaviour management and ITE
Behaviour management and "Upward Delegation"
Behaviour management - restraint
Reflections on school Visits; Behaviour Systems
Dislocation; Coping With Life's Rocks
Subject ideas
Learning from Experience
Ideas
Topic; the long view
Curricular reminiscences
Food For Thought Cross curricular topics
Resource Tasks; Know How with Show How
Learning from Experience
Ideas
Topic; the long view
Curricular reminiscences
Food For Thought Cross curricular topics
Resource Tasks; Know How with Show How
English
All talk? Every lesson is an English lesson.
Good communication or Grammar Pedantry
English as a facilitating Subject?
As easy as ABC; developing a topic Glossary
Articulating thoughts
Year 6 Book list
Book lists yrs 7-9
Year 8 recommended reads 2017
Year 10 Recommended Reads 2017
Year six book List 2016
Year 6 Book List 2017
Books for Inclusion Fiction
Children’s #authorsontwitter
Developing Reading teachers and Readers
Reading, words, Phonics...
Asking for spellings...
Reading; essentials
Get them reading!
Reading is a personal thing
Reading; between sessions
Reading dynamics
Fifty(ish) reading ideas
Reading; once upon a time...
On reading
Reading For Pleasure?
Readability
Readability. Can they read what they are given?
In for a penny
Cloze procedure
Five senses starter
image-based recount
Note making, not note taking...
Draft-check-improve/redraft
National writing project; revival time?
All writing in one exercise book?
Writing process; tweak your books
Exercise books as personal organisers?
Book Reviews; writing
All talk? Every lesson is an English lesson.
Good communication or Grammar Pedantry
English as a facilitating Subject?
As easy as ABC; developing a topic Glossary
Articulating thoughts
Year 6 Book list
Book lists yrs 7-9
Year 8 recommended reads 2017
Year 10 Recommended Reads 2017
Year six book List 2016
Year 6 Book List 2017
Books for Inclusion Fiction
Children’s #authorsontwitter
Developing Reading teachers and Readers
Reading, words, Phonics...
Asking for spellings...
Reading; essentials
Get them reading!
Reading is a personal thing
Reading; between sessions
Reading dynamics
Fifty(ish) reading ideas
Reading; once upon a time...
On reading
Reading For Pleasure?
Readability
Readability. Can they read what they are given?
In for a penny
Cloze procedure
Five senses starter
image-based recount
Note making, not note taking...
Draft-check-improve/redraft
National writing project; revival time?
All writing in one exercise book?
Writing process; tweak your books
Exercise books as personal organisers?
Book Reviews; writing
Maths
Modelling Maths
Maths; making sense of the real world.
Talking maths
Maths everywhere
Show maths, talk maths, draw maths, image maths.
Investigating mathematically
More maths Activities
Quick (one minute) data
Maths; Race To The Flat?
The answer is twelve?
Story maths?
Rule of Thumb
Modelling Maths
Maths; making sense of the real world.
Talking maths
Maths everywhere
Show maths, talk maths, draw maths, image maths.
Investigating mathematically
More maths Activities
Quick (one minute) data
Maths; Race To The Flat?
The answer is twelve?
Story maths?
Rule of Thumb
Science/Foundation
Introducing Srevihc Sirhc
3D Masks made easily
Five fold 3D masks
Arts for Art's sake
Is colour mixing the only art?
Processing the Visual World
Saleem; The (first) artist who came to school
Singing in Primary Schools
Valuing Primary Science?
Primary Science; All play and Skills?
Creating Primary Scientists
Primary Science is a practical subject
Keeping Science on the Primary Agenda
In search of the Triantiwontigongolope
Expert witnesses
People and Places; psychogeography
Rafting
Messing About on the River
Making engineers = DT in school
Exploring scientifically
November is a rotten month
Observation; get them to look
Creating Nature Detectives
50 things to Do; Thinking Locality
A Sense of Place; naming things
The world is not wallpaper
Exploring Science From shiny Things
Geography; Where I live.
A day Out in the 17th Century
Introducing Srevihc Sirhc
3D Masks made easily
Five fold 3D masks
Arts for Art's sake
Is colour mixing the only art?
Processing the Visual World
Saleem; The (first) artist who came to school
Singing in Primary Schools
Valuing Primary Science?
Primary Science; All play and Skills?
Creating Primary Scientists
Primary Science is a practical subject
Keeping Science on the Primary Agenda
In search of the Triantiwontigongolope
Expert witnesses
People and Places; psychogeography
Rafting
Messing About on the River
Making engineers = DT in school
Exploring scientifically
November is a rotten month
Observation; get them to look
Creating Nature Detectives
50 things to Do; Thinking Locality
A Sense of Place; naming things
The world is not wallpaper
Exploring Science From shiny Things
Geography; Where I live.
A day Out in the 17th Century
Assessment
Assessment; simples?
Assessment; recent Thoughts October 2017
Like riding a Bike; mastery reflections.
Year 7 Testing Will Prove Testing
Progressive Assessment
65- grinding out assessment?
Assessment tips; a starter for 14...
SATs 2016+; Reverse 11 plus?
Here we go round... the mulberry bush.
Assessment, I'll be Watching you...
everything is assessment…
Assessment WITH CHILDREN IN MIND
Assessment with Trainees and NQTs in mind
Assessment Blues; It's Not All Possible in ITE
Reference Points
Assessment; flying by the seat of one's pants
Take five children
Teachers think...
Goal setting and motivation
Assessing capability
Frames of Reference=FORmative assessment
Assessment=value Judgements
Assessment; words matter
Assessment; Unpicking the Past
Assessment; Simply Rational Decision Making?
School portfolios support assessment.
Pupil portfolios = public progress.
Assessment or critique?
Assessing a moving target- writing development
Assess and track
Blink
4b or not 4b? that's the question
First there was a level,
Revisiting; If Level-ness became Year-ness?
Instant assessment
Diagnostic assessment in year 4?
Assessment; righting wrongs?
Progress; what does it look like?
Progress and Outcomes
The nearly children.
On testing
Assess or examine
Terminal Testing and Terminology
If you could read my mind,…….
The "3Gs" assessment system
Assessment; simples?
Assessment; recent Thoughts October 2017
Like riding a Bike; mastery reflections.
Year 7 Testing Will Prove Testing
Progressive Assessment
65- grinding out assessment?
Assessment tips; a starter for 14...
SATs 2016+; Reverse 11 plus?
Here we go round... the mulberry bush.
Assessment, I'll be Watching you...
everything is assessment…
Assessment WITH CHILDREN IN MIND
Assessment with Trainees and NQTs in mind
Assessment Blues; It's Not All Possible in ITE
Reference Points
Assessment; flying by the seat of one's pants
Take five children
Teachers think...
Goal setting and motivation
Assessing capability
Frames of Reference=FORmative assessment
Assessment=value Judgements
Assessment; words matter
Assessment; Unpicking the Past
Assessment; Simply Rational Decision Making?
School portfolios support assessment.
Pupil portfolios = public progress.
Assessment or critique?
Assessing a moving target- writing development
Assess and track
Blink
4b or not 4b? that's the question
First there was a level,
Revisiting; If Level-ness became Year-ness?
Instant assessment
Diagnostic assessment in year 4?
Assessment; righting wrongs?
Progress; what does it look like?
Progress and Outcomes
The nearly children.
On testing
Assess or examine
Terminal Testing and Terminology
If you could read my mind,…….
The "3Gs" assessment system