The Snow Report: The authentic illusion in early literacy education...

The Snow Report: The authentic illusion in early literacy education...: Teaching them how to read is probably one of the most important duties a civilised society owes to its children. Being able to “lift words ...

School Data Updates: This is a low

School Data Updates: This is a low: I often use a race analogy to explain value added, to help people understand how we can measure progress without levels and why we don't...

Steps in teaching and learning: Second guessing the observer

Steps in teaching and learning: Second guessing the observer: Schools usually observe their staff three times a year and a typical observation in a typical school goes along the following lines. The ...

Notes from Harefield: Crap detecting for beginners

Notes from Harefield: Crap detecting for beginners: [The following is an edited version of a speech I gave at the launch of this book* in May 2017.] A recent Four Corners progr...

Notes from Harefield: Is changing your mind like changing your underwear...

Notes from Harefield: Is changing your mind like changing your underwear...: “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” George Bernard Shaw ...

Thinking About Teaching & Learning : Thinking about...modelling and mastery

Thinking About Teaching & Learning : Thinking about...modelling and mastery: We can’t learn from simply watching experts, if we could we’d all be elite sports performers. We need this performance broken down into chu...