TDRE Boss Blog: 6th Form Study Skills: Learning & Note Taking

TDRE Boss Blog: 6th Form Study Skills: Learning & Note Taking: "A man maie well bring a horse to the water, But he can not make him drinke without he will." wrote John Heywood in A Dialogue...

TDRE Boss Blog: REVIEW: Exploring the Mass (TERE)

TDRE Boss Blog: REVIEW: Exploring the Mass (TERE): Exploring the Mass is a brand new resource, authored by Cardinal Vincent Nichols, published by the Teacher's Enterprise in Religious ...

TDRE Boss Blog: CoRE Interim Report: My Response

TDRE Boss Blog: CoRE Interim Report: My Response: In February, I presented some evidence to initial evidence gathering session for the CoRE (see <here> ). In October 2017, they pub...

Tom Bennett's School Report: Educating Greater Manchester 2: Schools and other ...

Tom Bennett's School Report: Educating Greater Manchester 2: Schools and other ...: There’s a weird thing I hear sometimes from staff in a school. They say, ‘Oh the School should do x,’ or they’ll say in front of a stu...

Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog: Daft drafting in the classroom

Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog: Daft drafting in the classroom: I think the concept of ‘drafting’ is possibly one of the most dangerous concepts in secondary schools. It is used with aplomb and glee a...

Tom Bennett's School Report: Better behaviour benefits everyone. Why inclusion ...

Tom Bennett's School Report: Better behaviour benefits everyone. Why inclusion ...: Last March the DfE published my behaviour report ‘Creating a Culture’ in which I outlined some of the strategies most commonly found to ...

Evidence Based Educational Leadership: Judging the trustworthiness of research findings

Evidence Based Educational Leadership: Judging the trustworthiness of research findings: In last week's post,  I drew attention to differences in expert opinion over the usefulness of statistical significance testing, particu...