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Creating a Classroom Culture: The ‘Centre’
Every subject is different, it has its own rhythms and constraints around which a positive classroom culture can be created. Getting changed for PE, putting on lab coats, getting out… Read more
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A Level Results Day and the Polymathic Adventurer!
A level results day is always a bittersweet day for me, school left me when I was sixteen and by the time many of my friends were getting their A… Read more
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Nature or Nurture? Free Will and Education.
If everyone smoked twenty cigarettes a day the difference between those who got lung cancer and those who didn’t would be almost 100% heritable, even though the cause would be… Read more
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STEM and the Narrow Curriculum
An article in Schools Week reports: A free school in Newcastle that does not teach humanities, arts or foreign languages has been branded… Read more
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The Problem With Austin’s Butterfly
Ron Berger’s famous ‘Austin’s Butterfly’ is a great lesson about how redrafting and feedback can help a child create a more accurate ‘scientific’ drawing of a butterfly. In the… Read more
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History of Thought
In these days of very little time or space on a timetable it is still heartening to know that some schools are trying to make a space where children can… Read more
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Classroom Talk, Some Thoughts on the EEF Report…
I think the three ‘Rs’ of Reading wRiting and aRithmetic should be expanded to the four Rs and include Rhetoric or oRacy, in other words: talk should be an essential… Read more
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You Can’t Teach the Best That Has Been Thought and Said
Here are the slides in PDF format from my talk at the Telegraph Festival of Education at Wellington College on 22nd June 2017: You Can’t Teach The Best That Has… Read more
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The Conversational Classroom
Here are the slides in PDF format from my talk at ResearchEd Rugby on July 1st 2017: The Conversational Classroom #rEDRugby Read more
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