/ April 21, 2018 at 7:25 AM
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I wasn’t planning to write about the Chartered College Of Teaching again. Nobody involved seems to care about my criticisms, so I’m sure that when I write about it the only effect is that I publicise them and probably get…
/ April 14, 2018 at 6:49 AM
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There are two contrasting elements to the way schools respond to bad behaviour and to responses to wrongdoing in society generally. One is that of justice. Those who cause direct harm to others, undermine legitimate authority, or deliberately violate rules…
/ April 11, 2018 at 7:05 AM
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I’ve written a couple of posts recently about OFSTED ( What OFSTED still needs to do and OFSTED and Workload) which brought up the issue of workload. I identified two problems in particular that relate to marking. Firstly, OFSTED look…
/ April 6, 2018 at 6:21 AM
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One of the many educational bodies Michael Gove dispensed with was the GTC(E), a government funded compulsory professional body for teachers, best summed up by Tom Bennett as “an expensive magazine that could sack you”. In line with a lot of the…
/ April 4, 2018 at 6:17 AM
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A couple of days ago, I wrote this post The EEF were even more wrong about ability grouping than I realised which revealed that the Education Endowment Foundation, a government funded body looking at what works in schools, had through a series…
/ April 2, 2018 at 6:12 AM
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For quite some time now, if I mentioned my support for setting, people would refer me to the EEF toolkit. This supposedly neutral source looked at the meta-analyses and found that setting or streaming had a negative effect, supported by…
/ March 31, 2018 at 7:01 PM
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In a recent blogpost I made the following comments about how OFSTED could change: Don’t add to workload. There’s a lot of debate about how inspections could prevent teachers having too much workload. If there is a practical way to do…
/ March 30, 2018 at 5:09 AM
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I’ve written a lot in the past about school shaming. The Daily Mail is still shaming schools Don’t Twitter shame a school and call it a debate What’s it like for a school to be shamed? Part 1 What’s it like for a…
/ March 24, 2018 at 7:35 AM
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I asked this question on Twitter: What was around in schools when you started teaching that you now find hard to believe ever existed? My answer: 1) Maths coursework 2) Reports written by hand on duplicate paper. — Andrew Old…
/ February 4, 2018 at 7:47 AM
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Yesterday I blogged about the background to the issue of teacher autonomy and the dilemma facing traditionalists who, when progressives were in control, argued for autonomy, but now see it used to justify bad practice. Although I still tend to…
/ February 3, 2018 at 7:53 AM
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When I first started blogging, and for several years afterwards, teachers were being forced to teach in a way that, if you were familiar with the history of educational thought, could only be described as “progressive”. Skills were more important…
/ January 5, 2018 at 8:26 AM
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Three weeks ago a couple of people (who I would call “trolls”, but who would no doubt see themselves as perfectly justified in all the abuse they’ve posted over the years) started sharing my blogposts from 8 or 9 years…
/ November 19, 2017 at 7:13 PM
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Yesterday I wrote about what I think makes some subjects “academic” and other subjects, while still worthwhile, not academic. The discussion on Twitter immediately afterwards was particularly helpful in helping me reconsider some points and defend others (although by now…
/ December 4, 2016 at 8:23 AM
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Back in July 2015 I wrote this post and this post about arguments that were being used more and more by progressives, as their traditional arguments of “it’s what the government/OFSTED tell us to do” and “it’s what the research…
/ September 16, 2016 at 8:59 AM
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Last week there were stories in the press about a school that enforced its uniform policy (yes, that really was considered newsworthy). Much of the response resembled “school shaming” which I wrote about in this series of posts in the…
/ August 26, 2016 at 8:38 PM
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The College of Teaching popped up again today on social media. I have blogged about this very many times. There has been a prolonged attempt by the education establishment to create a new professional body for teachers, following Michael Gove’s…
/ August 18, 2016 at 10:18 AM
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Apologies for getting a bit behind with these. In May, Schools Week published my review of the best blogs of the week. Purple praise: a spoon full of sugar helps the marking go down By @Xris32 We all know that praise in…
/ August 10, 2016 at 7:53 PM
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I have been writing a series of posts about schools being publicly ‘shamed’ in the press and on social media. The Daily Mail is still shaming schools Don’t Twitter shame a school and call it a debate What’s it like for a…
/ August 10, 2016 at 7:53 PM
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I have been writing a series of posts about schools being publicly ‘shamed’ in the press and on social media. The Daily Mail is still shaming schools Don’t Twitter shame a school and call it a debate What’s it like for a…
/ August 7, 2016 at 7:47 PM
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I’ve written a couple of posts recently about how schools can be “shamed” in the press (usually the Daily Mail) and on social media. Here, I’m going to show what that is like. I’m not going to name the school…
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