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What Do Posh Schools Teach Their Kids?
There is a perennial debate that goes on in education circles about what education is for, is it about education for its own sake or is it about creating a… Read more
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Prick Us, Do We Not Bleed? Teach Us, Should We Not Study?
In his diary column in the Times on Monday 5th January David Aaronovitch wrote about going to see, recently and for the first time, a production of the Merchant of… Read more
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There Are Learning Styles, But…
…the learning styles that most people think of when we use the phrase are bunkum. Despite this seeming to be common knowledge I still surprise groups of teachers when I mention… Read more
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On the Octagon Table: Does Mixed Ability Teaching and Learning Work?
Would you prefer your seven year old child to be taught in a mixed ability class or not? According to the Millennium Cohort Study whether a seven year old child is… Read more
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Practise Teaching, Teaching Practice
Here are a series of blogs for teachers who are at the beginning of their careers, I hope some of them might be of interest: On voice On testing On… Read more
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Teaching the Trivium
Here are some of the blogs I have written for teachers on teaching the trivium, in one handy place so that they are easier to access, should you so wish!… Read more
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Trivium Schools 2015
Happy New Year! It was gratifying to see that Trivium Schools got a mention in the Guardian in a piece entitled: ‘What’s in store for education in 2015?’ It would be great… Read more
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The Socratic Method, Teaching the Trivium: Dialectic
Not many teachers would want to wander into the staff room after a particularly robust seminar and be presented with a coffee cup full of steaming hot hemlock, ‘drink this you… Read more
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Where Gradgrind Got It Right; Teaching the Trivium: On Grammar
Although I don’t like to talk about it I’ve got a soft spot for Gradgrind. Not exactly a sympathetic character, I know, but let’s look beyond his, er, how shall we… Read more
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Bearing Gifts We Traverse Afar: A Trivial Christmas Wish
The Magi, magicians and astrologers three, the wise mysterious men of their age, followed a star to see what wonder might unfold. When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great… Read more
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