Confident Teacher

The reality of the Covid pandemic has seen millions of pupils thrust into a position remote home learning. A stark truth is that pupils learn most when they are in…

The subject of homework inspires strong opinions. Teachers, parents and students themselves all have a view on the matter and those views are often diametrically opposed. Dylan Wiliam, back in…

“You know, when you find yourself having to raise your voice, and your heart starts pounding, and you start realizing that things are not going the way you had planned,…

It is time to talk… about the importance of academic talk. Since the beginning of the year, I have worked with lots of school leaders, with discussions quickly turning to…

Making positive changes in schools is incredibly hard work. It typically involves lots of teachers who are naturally inclined to protect their hard-won habits. As such, it is crucial to…

Every so often the issue of marking and feedback emerges and fractious debates kick off. Teachers with marking ingrained as a daily habit, can view it as essential; whereas, many…

It is decades since Paul Black and Dylan Wiliam opened up the ‘Black Box’ to reveal the crucial importance of assessment as learning, but it would appear the messages from…

There are trillions of selections lecturers make once they train. This dizzying complexity makes instructing rewarding, tiring, anxious, and generally even thrilling.  Understandably, confronted with the complexity of the classroom, lecturers…

After I was rising up I sought out books that mirrored my world. I can identify the narratives that walked me by way of my tortured teenagers, or these books…

You may virtually odor the burning indignation of Every day Mail readers as they learn the next story on ‘Quilt Days’ for academics. “Classes in Laziness from lie-in academics” is the…