Wednesday, June 30, 2021
Assessment and retention
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For many years schools ran to a basic formula: 1. Set Programme based on Syllabus 2. Teach 3. Revise 4. Test 5. Correct major issues (repe...
Tuesday, June 29, 2021
Lockdown and education
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With four days of an 11 day term remaining, teachers are crawling to the finishing line. Kids and staff are ratty and tired. Parents in the...
Saturday, June 12, 2021
Reporting, Pathways and Streaming
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Students are commonly placed in Pathways in schools commonly known as streams. These streams set the level of teaching to ensure students a...
Saturday, May 1, 2021
Self Sabotaging or inhibiting your career in Education
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Self sabotaging is something I've watched a lot in education, it can be devastating to a career. Self sabotaging is doing things that w...
Saturday, April 24, 2021
Covid and Good Enough Teaching
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I was talking with a colleague on Friday and conversation returned to online education. The premise was if online teaching was good enough ...
Sunday, April 4, 2021
The bucket
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Alan Hughes (Level 9 HOLA) introduced me to the idea of the bucket. The bucket represents the resilience of a student. Each time a student...
Sunday, March 28, 2021
Performance Anxiety and measures of success
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Anxiety is a two edged sword. Can't perform without it, can't perform with too much of it. Understanding how success impacts anxiet...
Tuesday, March 23, 2021
Closing the gap in student performance
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The blue graph represents a learning curve of an average student The red graph represents a learning curve of a student that has fallen be...
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