Educational Reader’s Digest | Friday 18th August – Friday 25th August
Educational Reader’s Digest
Friday 18th August – Friday 25th August
Leadership and management
1. Time to seriously question Ofsted?, by Stephen Tierney
2. Now is a time for cool head and warm hearts, by Stephen Tierney
3. GCSE results post-mortem, by Tom Sherrington
4. Shoot the target grade, by Martin Robinson
5. Make it visible. Don’t take work home, by Ben Newmark
6. Not the Messiah! There are no magic wands, by Simon Smith
Teaching, learning and assessment
1. An art history of back to school, by James Theobald
2. The Abilene Paradox: why schools do things nobody actually wants, by Carl Hendrick
3. Twas the night before results day, by Kelly Leonard
4. Being a HoD on GCSE results day is a leap into the unknown, by Rebecca Foster
5. For the first time, this GCSE results day we will have results we can rely on, by Grainne Hallahan
6. This year’s GCSEs are like a pantomime, by Chris Curtis
7. Should we be nice to students who fail?, by John Kenny
8. Despite the predictable uproar, changes to GCSEs were the right thing to do, by John Blake
9. Essential summer reads: ‘Making Every English Lesson Count’, by Jamie Thom
10. Climbing mountains in small steps, by James Murphy
11. False profits, and why representation matters at researchED, by Tom Bennett
12. The moral concerns of researchED, by Charlotte Pezaro
13. A door into the dark, by James Murphy
14. On being afraid, by Nick Shaw
15. In praise of dignity and justice, by David Didau
16. What I stand for, by David Didau
17. Teachers as resisting intellectuals, by Vincent Lien
18. #pomoED, by Greg Ashman
19. Education needs its non-conformists, by Greg Ashman
20. Keeping students on the maths bus, by Greg Ashman
21. A few jots on mythological allusions, by Eleanor Mears
22. Too much knowledge, too soon. Might that keep the poor in poverty too?, by Thomas James
23. Blogging: 3 years on, by Deborah Netolicky
24. Looking at progress in Year 7 English and maths through comparative judgement, by Patrick Barmby
25. Notes from nowhere, by Michael Merrick
26. Tips for using a visualiser or document camera (mainly for English), by Daniel Smith
27. This much I know about…writing, language and catching a sea trout, by John Tomsett
28. Genes, environment and behaviour, by Sue Gerrard
29. Great books for the sceptical teacher, by Andrew Old
30. A timeline of literature (with GCSE texts), by James Theobald
31. Why aren’t I a better teacher?, by Sam Pullen
32. Imagination in the classroom can be unlocked – just hand over the keys, by Hywel Roberts
33. Bobby and Emily, by Nell Flowers
34. Taking control of your professional development with research – post 3, by Blake Harvard
35. Avoiding a ‘literacy dip’ in Year 7, by James Durran
36. The importance of ‘extended writing’, by James Durran
37. Getting off to the best start with a new class, by Shaun Allison
38. Creating a classroom culture: the ‘centre’, by Martin Robinson
Personal development, behaviour and welfare
1. Why is co-production so powerful? Learning from research, by Gareth Morewood
2. The science of school uniform, by Greg Ashman
3. The best pastoral care, by Steve Adcock
Thanks for reading –
Doug
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