What is ‘social mobility’ if not a desire to move children from one class into a higher one?
Category: education policy
Teachers Who Save You.
I was really good at school until I hit Year 9. Something snapped in Year 9. Continue reading “Teachers Who Save You.”
I’m a School in Special Measures.
I’m a school in special measures. Stubborn, me. Went ‘special’ almost ten years ago, and we’re still special, see:- Continue reading “I’m a School in Special Measures.”
Exclusions
Lord Adonis has caused quite a stir this weekend with his statement that “We must tackle the cancer of school expulsions – 1000s are excluded for a period of time each school day. Continue reading “Exclusions”
And now good news for reading!!
Last week I was able to bring you good news in relation to group work in terms of our performance in PISA tests (for 15 year olds). And now, other international comparison tests (PIRLS – for 9/10 year olds) tell us that we’re doing pretty well in reading too
– around 8th out of 50. Continue reading “And now good news for reading!!”
Some Good News for Group Work?
You may not know it, because our media didn’t report it: nor did our ministers shout it from the rooftops, but we did rather well in the PISA international comparison tests on Collaborative Problem Solving.
Discovery? Inquiry? It’s all Academic.
Hidden in the RSA’s report, Ideal School Exhibition, last week was a little sentence that made my heart sink:-
No frills education: the workload paradox.
Becky Allen’s brilliant speech this week and Amanda Spielman’s clarification that Ofsted were indeed cross checking teacher’s responses to the workload question on their staff questionnaire with SLT’s claims, has brought the question of workload to the fore again.
Continue reading “No frills education: the workload paradox.”
Preparing children for life?
How often do we, as teachers, tell children that the experiences they encounter in school are designed to “prepare you for life/the real world?” We place rules, uniform, curriculum content into a box called “Future” and dole it out without really thinking if any of them are true.
What I Learned in China…
I’ve just returned from my fifth trip to China (14th if you count Hong Kong).