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Thinking Clearly: Three Cognitive Errors to Avoid

Fundamentally, all of us are prone to making what are called ‘cognitive errors’ – lapses in logical, rational thinking. And

GCSE results and linked progress scores for individual classes are unreliable proxies for judging teacher effectiveness. It’s tempting to think

I’ve nearly finished my third year as an Assistant Headteacher, having taken on the role in 2016 after a six

I became Head of Year 11 in my third year as a teacher. Looking back, I think it was probably

I did my NQT year at the school I was placed at during the second half of my PGCE year.

1. Learning is invisible and happens over time, so attempting to measure progress in a single lesson is futile 2. Judgements made on

As we prepare for those post-results analysis meetings and thorny performance management conversations, I thought it’d be helpful to outline

We’re well over a week into exam season, so I thought now would be a reasonable time to reflect on

Thinking clearly and rationally is hard at the best of times, but perhaps particularly so at this frenetic time of

About a week ago, the Head of English at the school I work at delivered a lecture to well over