Mindset/Skillset

  http://www.agoodweek.com/ - valuable idea - get gooding - all it takes is a slightly different mindset....

Working with one of my favourite teachers this week. She told me she'd always been 'at the bottom of the top set' in school. Music, for example, she'd... [Read on ...]

I've been 'on the road' since January. I'm taking some time off. Off the road that is. Still working but sitting down more.  'In the office' requ... [Read on ...]

Lord Putnam's rally-call We Are The People We Have Been Waiting For concludes that a rich and worthwhile education equally values academic and non-aca... [Read on ...]

"I can sort this. There is a way to sort this": (teacher fixing a problem in front of her class - the Teachers' TV clip had reset itself to the star... [Read on ...]

In Northern Ireland this week and greeted one morning by a SAT NAV first: Programmed in origin & destination, route calculated, then it announ... [Read on ...]

Monday: Changing classroom practice across a whole school Tuesday: Changing self-knowledge & skills of 130 Y8s Wednesday: Changing behaviours &a... [Read on ...]

Parents talking to their toddlers: You're going to fall; You can't manage that; You're going to go splat; Be careful; Come back down; You'll never ... [Read on ...]

"Praising students for their intelligence, then, hands them not motivation and resilience but a fixed mind-set with all its vulnerability. In contras... [Read on ...]