Confident Teacher

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…

At the beginning of this week, after faculty, I gave a chat to a gaggle of shiny, new trainee academics with my colleague, Jane Elsworth. We gave a chat as…

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…

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…

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…

What if instruments generally used within the classroom threaten to inhibit the educational they have been developed to help? Too typically, a well-meaning educating software can get indifferent from the…

There’s heaps to know concerning the brilliantly advanced act of educating and studying. Right here is my record of 10 issues to know within the plainest phrases doable: 1. Pupils…

“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,…

Since 2012, I’ve written quite a few posts about suggestions and marking. That is no shock given our faculty system has been seemingly addicted to creating ‘progress’ seen, with suggestions…