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  • Is Teaching A Profession?

    (One of the arguments for a College of Teaching is that it will raise the status of teaching as a profession. Do I want teachers to have higher status as a profession?      No…) From the oldest profession to the newest ones ‘professionalisation’ takes its toll. Wage slavery sucking the life blood out of the Read more

  • Was Gove only ‘Obeying Orders’?

    Some interesting and controversial tweets by Dominic Cummings this afternoon: He tweeted, that, in essence, Michael Gove did not want to take a confrontational line with teachers but he was encouraged to do so by David Cameron and his Downing Street Spads. DfE wanted Gove to build alliances outside Tory Party but Cameron and some Read more

  • Some Questions About The Proposed College of Teaching

    A college of teaching is to be set up to: “Protect standards and to raise the status of the teaching profession”. “Ms Morgan says she wants teaching to be seen as having a similar status as professions such as medicine and law. In a joint statement with Mr Laws, the education secretary says teaching is “almost Read more

  • On Character Education: A Response From Scotland

    Gary Walsh who tweets here and is the Executive Officer for Character Scotland has asked if I would publish his response to my latest post on ‘character education‘. I have written three blogs specifically about character ed, if you’re interested, the other two can be found here:  Character Education Is A Waste Of Time Have We Got Read more

  • Forget Character ‘Passports’ and Embrace Eudaimonia

    This is the text of my talk at the National Conference of the SSAT on December 4th 2014:   There is a dichotomy at the heart of the discussion about character education: on the one side we have people who think we can mould people into a homogenous morass of compliant worker types who need Read more

  • Measuring Progress in Drama

    Measuring progress in a subject like drama is very difficult, a teacher can make assessments but these are likely to be very subjective. This is not necessarily a bad thing but it is a thing. If someone comes into the lesson, say a senior manager, and wants to know how pupils are ‘progressing’ you can show Read more