FROM THE ARCHIVES: The Five Worst Education Clichés
One of my old posts is topical again.
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A teacher in England discussing education and its inevitable conflicts
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PREMIUM: The 2024/25 permanent exclusion figures Part 1
Exclusions from schools are down, but in some year groups they are still high
PREMIUM: Fake Formative Assessment
Part 3 of the Fake Education series
PREMIUM: Deskilling Teachers Part 3
Making our work easier is good, actually.
PREMIUM: The rise and fall (and rise again?) of PowerPoint
Does A.I. mean we will all go back to clicking through slides?
PREMIUM: Why teachers learn to play the game
Part 2 of the Fake Education series
PREMIUM: The 2023/24 permanent exclusion figures Part 2
How did race and sex affect the changes in exclusion rates?
PREMIUM: Fake Education
Too much of what is done in schools is just for show
PREMIUM: Two Stars and a Wish #60 featuring language teaching, SEND interventions, and a defence of maths myths
Two great links and one I wish was better.
PREMIUM: Supervising independent work
Part 15 of the My Teaching series.
PREMIUM: Two Stars and a Wish #59 featuring exclusions, Ontario, and the Learning Pyramid
Two great links and one I wish was better.
PREMIUM: “I know you’re busy, but I just need to complain about you doing your job.”
Technology is changing the relationship between parents and teachers.
PREMIUM: A teacher identifies 3 tasks that ChatGPT is actually good at
I use AI a lot when planning my lessons. Sometimes, it is actually useful.
PREMIUM: Setting independent work to be done in workbooks (or worksheets)
Part 14 of the My Teaching series.
PREMIUM: Two Stars and a Wish #58 featuring phone bans, phone bans, and phone bans.
Two great links and one I wish was better.
PREMIUM: Whatever happened to the spoilt child?
I recall a time when we knew that there was a downside to letting children get their own way.
Deskilling Teachers Part 2
The value of experience depends on having experiences that are of value.
PREMIUM: The 2023–24 permanent exclusion figures Part 1
Permanent exclusions are higher than they used to be – for real this time.
Deskilling Teachers: Part 1
Making our work easier is good, actually.
PREMIUM: Bringing my teaching up to date
Part 13 of the My Teaching series.
Hackney: Ofsted and exclusions
Another interlude in the Hackney series