I Don’t Like Group Work
But only when it's done for the sake of doing group work. To tick a box; develop life skills; now back to your spellings etc. [...]
Do You Let Your Pupils Doodle?
The Guardians of Doodle The 24th September 2011 was an important day for doodlers but it may have passed you by. That is, unless you [...]
The Only Tip You’ll Ever Need To Stop Procrastinating
It took me 15 seconds to begin writing this article and 30 minutes to finish it. Last year it might be anything up to a [...]
3 Questions To Find Out If Your Curriculum Is Fit For Purpose
The challenge with having a curriculum that's fit for purpose is knowing whose purpose it's fit for. Is yours? Answer these 3 questions to find [...]
Why British Values Are Not Enough
4 British Values 'Necessary but not sufficient': something I learned from my A-Level Maths teacher, the wise, modest and rigorous Mr Rooke. We were learning [...]
Where to Speak 600,000 Words
Which part of a bus is the most important? The engine? The driver? Wheels, brakes, fog lights? The passengers? No. It's the Literacy Alcove. The [...]
Was Freud an AI Coach?
At the End of the Couch This is Sigmund Freud's coach. Sorry, couch, bit of a slip there. It's in The Freud Museum so you can't sit [...]
Bake Offsted
My grown up children made this. In fact they made twenty of them. They are wagon wheel biscuits inspired by last week's Great British Bake [...]
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5 Stages of Remote Teaching
The good news is you're probably already at stage 4. [...]
Why You Should Not Teach Live Lessons
Before COVID, we educators and trainers had this: And then, [...]
Four Words for 2021
I didn't choose them; I heard them at a Gallup [...]
How to Blend Learning #1
The 'blended' in 'blended learning' means combining in-class with online [...]
Knowledge is Dead. Long Live Knowledge.
I'm walking in the country with R. It's a professional [...]
A One-Line Recovery Curriculum
It's a question. A single question. It's not this: What [...]