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January 17, 2014

Trivium 21st C: Could this be the answer?

Trivium 21st C: Could this be the answer?. Read more
January 10, 2014

On Detentions: Systems Should Manage Like a Champion

“If a thing’s not worth doing well, it’s not worth doing at all.” Vile Bodies, Evelyn Waugh I was fascinated by the programme ‘Tough Young Teachers‘ that went out on… Read more
December 16, 2013

Teaching Creativity? There’s Nothing To It

Instead of ‘teaching’ students to be creative, teachers should look to the ultimate creative act for inspiration. The film is my first foray into the video form and is thanks… Read more
November 23, 2013

Why Educate? To Expand The Self, Rather Than Narrow The Self.

I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent… Samuel Beckett, Endgame. I like students to learn… Read more
October 26, 2013

Teacher Talk: Sounding Into Ears

In the early middle ages “instruction came from didactic grammarians who taught in repetitive and boring ways… the one way catechism (literally ‘to sound into ears’) by which the master… Read more
October 18, 2013

Monkeying About: A Roy Hodgson moment

Reading about Roy Hodgson’s ‘space monkey’ joke and how it has caused a furore reminded me of an incident in school about five years ago. I was walking through a… Read more
October 4, 2013

The Battle of the Blob

Michael Gove has deblobbed in Austria. Now, with evangelical zeal, and the rhetoric of social justice, he wants to irrigate the flabby educational colon of its sticky blob. This blob values Marxism, fights excellence… Read more
September 20, 2013

From the Me to the We: Making Group-Work Work!

In ‘The Importance of Teaching‘ Michael Gove says: “All too often, we’ve seen an over-emphasis on group work – in practice, children chatting to each other – in the belief… Read more

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