Notes for Lesson Observers and Learning Walkers
1. Learning is invisible and happens over time, so attempting to measure progress in a single lesson is futile 2. Judgements made on
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Leadership and Management
Errors in Thinking: 9 Common Cognitive Biases
As we prepare for those post-results analysis meetings and thorny performance management conversations, I thought it’d be helpful to outline
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My Teaching: Nine Things I’ve Changed
We’re well over a week into exam season, so I thought now would be a reasonable time to reflect on
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Common Cognitive Biases: Part 1
Thinking clearly and rationally is hard at the best of times, but perhaps particularly so at this frenetic time of
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Lecturing Year 11
About a week ago, the Head of English at the school I work at delivered a lecture to well over
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