In paraphrase, Sean Harford's second question is: "Wouldn't students learn more if we just spent the last week of term hammering in more subject teaching, instead of this Participatory-nonsense?" The answer is found in the framework. [4 minutes to read] Last week, Ofsted's National Director kindly helped pin down what he foresees as the two... Continue Reading →
A big thank you to the National Director for taking the time to see me yesterday at Ofsted's Birmingham HQ, where he helped formulate the two key challenges to a Participatory Budgeting programme in schools. This is the answer to his first question on the puzzle of mapping PB to the curriculum. [4 minutes to read]... Continue Reading →
When it comes to knowledge and knowledge production, the education sector outguns Big Data and all traditional industries, combined. Here is a call for us to take ownership of that fact. Enter Knowledge Management. This week, I attended the ARK Group’s annual Knowledge Management Summit in London, eagerly attended by some of the largest corporations... Continue Reading →
This workshop turns research published by Iowa State University earlier this year into practical activities that embed subject learning into long-term memory and connects discreet knowledge to context and application. [4 mins to read] I am presenting with Ed Dooley, Deputy Headteacher at Bluebell Primary School in Norwich and SSIF Maths project lead. Ed has extensive... Continue Reading →
Pertinent to the profound themes of last month's VNET Conference, you are now invited to join exceptional colleagues to explore how manageable civic engagement can be aligned with the new Ofsted framework. [5 mins read] Every school today faces an insurmountable impasse: A recent report by the RSA shows that 84% of young people desire to make... Continue Reading →
Ofsted's lead researcher. A unicorn in red. An inclusion specialist off his meds. A flute playing chemistry professor. A grand old man. Some philosopher-CEOs. And a teacher with digital traction in New York, Tyne & Wear. What do they have in common? Well, aside from the fact that they spoke at Friday's VNET Curriculum Conference? I personally felt... Continue Reading →
No public body seems more hated and reviled by its stakeholders than Ofsted. And the vitriolic twitter comments on last week's well-being survey are nursery rhymes compared to the language used in private. Because education profoundly effects our lives from, well, EYFS to the grave, Ofsted's work should be defined by its commitment to transparency,... Continue Reading →
At the start of this term, Mr Glenn Russell was appointed permanent head of Stalham Academy by Rightforsuccess Trust. In the week before summer holidays, Mr Russell gave a critical and qualified appraisal of Cooperative Learning at Stalham Academy. Please scroll to bottom of page to see a list of one-minute extracts. Since the school converted to academy status... Continue Reading →
Special offer: I am very pleased to announce that private sponsors of the Islam Awareness Week 2015 programme at Ihsan Mosque has made it possible to make “Islam in RE: Religious Literacy & Controversy Through Enquiry” available to teachers at only £75. . You school saves £125 on this £200 course, recently presented as a part of the PGCE students programme at the... Continue Reading →
Interviews with Stalham Academy's acting head Mr Andrew Howard and deputy head Ms Deborah Gillespie on the adoption of Cooperative Learning. Werdelin Education has provided 2 of the three 2 hour blocks of the Skills & Mastery CL course to the Academy's teachers; the interviews with Mr Howard were conducted after the first session on... Continue Reading →
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