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World Education Summit, What Makes a Good Workshop?
I enjoyed various workshops in the world education summit, making some useful connections and being reminded of our mission. I am duly suspicious of folks who are selling an educational product. Moreso, I doubt folks who sell a product that underlines their...
Engaging with Models of Teaching
A frustration in my profession is the inability, or at least unwillingness, of us to be reflective about our methodology. How are we teaching? Why are we teaching? In the place of more expert craftsmanship, we might instead consider elements like: student grades,...
The Human Reasons Behind a Piece of Work
Students produce pieces for school reasons: write this essay to prove you understand this text. Answer these questions to gain this mark. Literature exists beyond school reasons. Admittedly, the popularity of classic literature, and modern poetry, is because students...
Creating Revision
Hello all, It has been a fair time since I wrote for this blog, for various reasons. COVID hit the education world hard, removing some of the usual connections. My current situation is appreciable. Students are invested in achieving well academically, usually...
What teachers want
Teachers are not a coherent demographic, let alone a homogenous one. Political beliefs, approaches to the job, and personal circumstances vary remarkably. Much of my career has been an evolution of expectation, of what the job entails, and what teachers are different...
Some thoughts on working hard at teaching
Teaching is a tough profession if you are emotionally invested. The institution of education is tremendously competitive, and sometimes vague how it rewards different outcomes. Like with sport or music, the margins between failure and success can be fine. There exists...
It has been a while since I wrote
It has been a while since I wrote. My headspace has been in academic study, and distant-study at that. Perhaps my reticence exists because I wonder for whom am I writing? TQG used to be anonymous until a zealous workshop in NATE 'outed' it back in the day. Since...
Creating a healthy academic discourse
Creating a healthy academic discourse in a (relatively!) non-selective classroom with pupils who haven’t chosen to be there. What does it mean to ‘understand a text’? The interpretation of a text can be intensely personal, and to simply say an interpretation is wrong...
What do we want to measure in schools and why
I received a thoughtful email from a colleague this week. My (redacted!) reply is worth sharing: Firstly, thanks for introducing me to Karen Ardley. I see she enjoys links to Bath Uni, which gives her international credentials. The need for 7 years to embed a...
Throwback – Thoughts on preparing lessons on a Sunday Evening in 2012
Preparing a lesson Normally I prepare my lessons after marking so that my planning responds to my marking. This weekend I have left my marking in school. Last year I aimed to plan Sunday evening. Even though I work better under pressure, I think that I am often tired...