posted on 02 October 2009 11:50
Trying to find a common thread across 4 experiences this week:
- Leadership Training at Foxborough in Slough
- Thinking Skills day at Royal Masonic in Rickmansworth
- Midge Ure live in Winchester
- Visit to Exeter House Special Needs school in Salisbury
Hmmm…hmmmm…..
Ah yes. Passion, commitment, skill and dedication regarding -
- all learners becoming Quality Communicators
- all learners developing their thinking skills for life
- music, charity and the human spirit
- the fine art of teaching and learning
The leadership at Foxborough works well because it does what it says on the tin. It is simple and focussed. All children will communicate well because that’s the foundation of everything else.
The strategic thinking at RMS is spot on. My TS input was a small, high impact part of a much bigger whole, rather than a tick on an improvement plan.
Midge Ure exudes passion, slips in dry humour, and hides humbly his mammoth charity commitment to making millions of lives better.
And Exeter House in Salisbury. I firmly believe that some of the best teaching takes place in Special Schools – because it has to. You have to match teaching style to learning need. You cannot get away with teaching to just above the middle. There is no middle. There is no ‘normal’.
Friday’s high order thinking over. Time for a cup of tea.