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July 16, 2017
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Educational Reader’s Digest | Friday 16th June – Friday 23rd June
June 23, 2017
Leadership and management 1. Rewards, by Tom Starkey 2. What can Australia learn from Michaela Community School?, by Greg Ashman 3. Why put the ‘A’ in STEAM?, by Greg Ashman 4. How for the first 25 years of my teaching career I didn’t really understand what I was doing, by John Tomsett 5. Show a … More Educational Reader’s Digest | Friday 16th June – Friday 23rd June
Educational Reader’s Digest | Friday 9th June – Friday 16th June
June 16, 2017
Leadership and management 1. Trojan Horse hearings were an abuse of justice, by Lee Donaghy 2. Ability is the consequence not the cause of what children learn, by David Didau 3. The secret of successful schools: the Anna Karenina Principle, by David Didau 4. Minutes (2), by Tom Starkey 5. If I were Secretary … More Educational Reader’s Digest | Friday 9th June – Friday 16th June
Five things I’ve found out from EduTwitter #1
June 11, 2017
Bulletin #1: Five things I’ve found out from EduTwitter over the past few weeks… Do grades in one GCSE subject predict results in another? Answer: Perhaps. References and digest: Click here. TL;DR: Biology appears to be a bridging subject between the sciences and humanities. Does school lunch quality affect student achievement? Answer: Probably. References … More Five things I’ve found out from EduTwitter #1
Educational Reader’s Digest | Friday 2nd June – Friday 9th June
June 9, 2017
Leadership and management 1. The importance of being wrong, by David Didau 2. The first 100 days of headship, by Anne Ingle 3. Governance matters at the #EducationFest, by Naureen Afzal Teaching, learning and assessment 1. Reading for pleasure checklist, by Josie Mingay 2. Unconscious bias, by Martyn Reah 3. The subject series, part 1 … More Educational Reader’s Digest | Friday 2nd June – Friday 9th June
Educational Reader’s Digest | Friday 26th May – Friday 2nd June
June 2, 2017
Leadership and management 1. How the Tories made a hash of school breakfasts, by Laura McInerney 2. Are education funding cuts becoming Theresa May’s Achilles’ heel?, by Ed Dorrell 3. Five ways to make parents cheerleaders for your subject, by Mark Enser 4. Out of the darkness, by Tom Sherrington 5. This much I know…, … More Educational Reader’s Digest | Friday 26th May – Friday 2nd June
Folk Knowledge and Academic Learning
May 28, 2017
David Geary, the cognitive developmental and evolutionary psychologist, writes in his essay Folk Knowledge and Academic Learning that ‘academic learning [is] effortful because it requires sustained attentional control and working memory resources.’ The act of reading a GCSE literary text provides a reasonable illustration of this: effortful determination is required to overcome the linguistic and … More Folk Knowledge and Academic Learning
Educational Reader’s Digest | Friday 19th May – Friday 26th May
May 26, 2017
Leadership and management 1. The Tory manifesto is ill-suited to the nation’s needs, by Geoff Barton 2. Teaching assistants are being overstretched and exploited, by Rob Webster 3. Less rhetoric, more funding for schools, please, by Kiran Gill 4. The push and pull of the Broad General Education, by Kenny Piper 5. Is workload a … More Educational Reader’s Digest | Friday 19th May – Friday 26th May
Educational Reader’s Digest | Friday 12th May – Friday 19th May
May 19, 2017
Leadership and management 1. Seven ways for teachers to support their colleagues, by Tom Rogers 2. Seven things to never do if you teach at your child’s school, by Keziah Featherstone 3. Five things I wish I knew before I started leading, by Stephen Tierney 4. The six kinds of headteacher you’ll ever meet, by … More Educational Reader’s Digest | Friday 12th May – Friday 19th May
Collection of ‘10 Allusions Worth Knowing’ Posts
May 18, 2017
I’ve put my three ‘10 allusions worth knowing’ posts from the past few months or so onto a single Word document that you can download by clicking on the link below: Allusions Help yourself – please use/adapt/ignore as you see fit. Here are the areas covered: · 10 historical allusions · 10 classical allusions · … More Collection of ‘10 Allusions Worth Knowing’ Posts
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