TDRE Boss Blog: GoogleForms

TDRE Boss Blog: GoogleForms: "[Dylan] Wiliam’s central point: multiple choice questions can be made to be extremely difficult and challenging, and they can cer...

TDRE Boss Blog: Forget Me Not: New GCSE Planning

TDRE Boss Blog: Forget Me Not: New GCSE Planning: The new GCSE courses gives us an opportunity to implement more of what we know about how memory works. Even last year, the homework I se...

Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog: Starters and the three part lesson - R.I.P.

Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog: Starters and the three part lesson - R.I.P.: I remember a time when the most important thing for me in teaching was the starter. I’d spend hours, days and weeks thinking of ways to ...

The Emaths Blog: Solving the Teacher Shortage Crisis

The Emaths Blog: Solving the Teacher Shortage Crisis: The Education Select Committee today was the latest body to highlight the issue of teacher workforce numbers.   All headteachers know the d...

TDRE Boss Blog: Does religion have a place in the modern curriculu...

TDRE Boss Blog: Does religion have a place in the modern curriculu...: This was my unsuccessful application for TEDxNorwichEd 2017. Obviously if it ever got anywhere close to being an actual TEDx talk, it w...

The IT Guy in Education: Education > Behavior and Uniform

The IT Guy in Education: Education > Behavior and Uniform: It’s simpler and easier to respond to this site using my blog – it’s basic but works. http://theqstn.com/questions/193673/do-strict-sch...

The Emaths Blog: On Leaving Teaching

The Emaths Blog: On Leaving Teaching: (This was written in 2011 as the introduction chapter to my book, More On Being a Teacher) It was March 6th 2006 when I died. Mat was ...

Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog: Patterns and dominant methodologies in English

Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog: Patterns and dominant methodologies in English: I have focused this year at developing patterns within English teacher that help and aid learning. I have mentioned before the problem w...

Teaching Science: Practical work changing attitudes

Teaching Science: Practical work changing attitudes: It's important to discuss the value of practical work as science teachers, but we need to be aware of who is watching and what might be ...

Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog: Success is 5-6-7-3-2-0

Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog: Success is 5-6-7-3-2-0: When I was a child, I had a bike and because I lived in a dubious part of town I had one of those combination locks. A green plastic coa...

CHILDMYTHS: Is Psychological Treatment the Same Thing as Educa...

CHILDMYTHS: Is Psychological Treatment the Same Thing as Educa...: On the whole, it’s pretty easy to tell whether a method of working with people should be labeled psychotherapy, or should be considered as ...

Tom Bennett's School Report: Known unknowns: what I discovered in Stockholm

Tom Bennett's School Report: Known unknowns: what I discovered in Stockholm: I was the worst kind of tourist today: an ignorant one. I was in Stockholm to host researchED Haninge and chew bubblegum, and I was all...

Let's Move On From Here...: Permissive parenting is killing me in the classroo...

Let's Move On From Here...: Permissive parenting is killing me in the classroo...: A colleague is having problems with a learner. She runs a tight ship and students respect her and like her, but her usual behaviour techni...

The Snow Report: The story of an ugly duckling. Aka Phonics Check F...

The Snow Report: The story of an ugly duckling. Aka Phonics Check F...: I have never met a teacher who is not sincere about trying to do the best they can for the students in their classrooms. Insincere...

School Data Updates: Similar schools (my a***!)

School Data Updates: Similar schools (my a***!): An ex-colleague called me yesterday with a question about the similar schools measure in the performance tables. As we spoke I could feel th...

TDRE Boss Blog: When do we start the GCSE in RS?

TDRE Boss Blog: When do we start the GCSE in RS?: Key Stage 3 Religious Education is unregulated, just like most other Key Stage 3 subjects. I obviously don't mean internally, or by...

Tom Bennett's School Report: Sharing is caring: why centralised detentions migh...

Tom Bennett's School Report: Sharing is caring: why centralised detentions migh...: Train spotters have their niche, I have mine. Over the last ten years I must have been in over 150 schools to look at their behaviour...

TDRE Boss Blog: Battle for Ideas 2016: Religious Education in a Se...

TDRE Boss Blog: Battle for Ideas 2016: Religious Education in a Se...: Back in October, I was invited to speak at the Institute of Idea's 'Battle of Ideas' at the Barbican. At the time, I posted...

Let's Move On From Here...: Let's be clear what is and what isn't on my job de...

Let's Move On From Here...: Let's be clear what is and what isn't on my job de...: Picture the scene: a Year 7 boy is sitting in the medical room having been splendidly sick twice in the space of an hour. The receptionist i...

TDRE Boss Blog: Knowledge: The place of a core knowledge curriculu...

TDRE Boss Blog: Knowledge: The place of a core knowledge curriculu...: I will be publishing a series of blog posts which were initially to feature in a book about RE. This is the part two on Knowledge. Abst...

TDRE Boss Blog: Hirsch: The place of a core knowledge curriculum i...

TDRE Boss Blog: Hirsch: The place of a core knowledge curriculum i...: I will be publishing a series of blog posts which were initially to feature in a book about RE. This is the part one on Hirsch. Abstrac...

TDRE Boss Blog: Abstract: The place of a core knowledge curriculum...

TDRE Boss Blog: Abstract: The place of a core knowledge curriculum...: I will be publishing a series of blog posts which were initially to feature in a book about RE. This is the introduction:  Abstract  [T...

Evidence Based Educational Leadership: The school research lead : Do you work in a 'stupi...

Evidence Based Educational Leadership: The school research lead : Do you work in a 'stupi...: The school research lead and do you work in a ‘stupid’ school? Schools are full of bright people.   Unfortunately, many of our schools ...