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  • Curriculum Series Number One: Curriculum Chaos

    A striking conclusion that we have drawn from the findings is that, despite the fact that the curriculum is what is taught, there is little debate or reflection about it…… Read more

  • If Teachers Want Confident Pupils They Should Teach Them to Communicate Well

    The Sutton Trust report ‘Life Lessons, Improving essential life skills for young people’ (Oct 2017) makes interesting reading. There is much to discuss within its pages. One of the things that… Read more

  • Ofsted and the Curriculum

    I have been involved in curriculum designing for over twenty five years, teaching a subject that remains outside the national curriculum has meant I have had a free hand at… Read more

  • Voice Protection and Projection for Teachers (and for Theresa)…

    I felt sorry for Theresa May. Coughing, spluttering, losing your voice whilst trying to retain a semblance of dignity during a speech must have been quite a trial. It is… Read more

  • Knowledge Belongs to the Many, Not the Few

    Angela Rayner’s speech to the Labour Party conference contained many interesting ideas. The National Education Service, of course, echoes the UK’s beloved NHS: The next Labour Government will create a… Read more

  • Views.

    An innocent tweet? Apparently, for some, it was all too much. Comments about rows instead of groups, chairs facing one way and not the other followed… and ‘seating plans’ it… Read more

  • The Need for a Progressive Attitude

    In her thoughtful essay ‘The Crisis in Education’, Hannah Arendt addresses the difficulty of teaching in the modern world. If you go into teaching with the sole purpose of making… Read more

  • The Post-Modern Classroom.

    I asked Terry Eagleton what he thought the difference between modernism and post-modernism might be. He suggested that in modernism God was not quite out of the picture, he was… Read more

  • The Dangers of a Personalised Curriculum

    Trying to fit a personalised curriculum around the desires of a child is a dangerous idea. If we only ever follow the extreme individualisation where the child’s own innate tastes… Read more

  • Shoot the Target Grade

    Despite the person, who came to my school talking about how they arrived at estimated grades, saying that they should never be used as ‘target grades’, the school informed us… Read more

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