5 Hopes for Spielman
Reading Time: 4 minutes What are the hopes of the teaching profession now that OfSTED have a new chief inspector?
Tag: DfE
The Impact of Teacher Evaluation: Part 5
Reading Time: 3 minutes What is the quantity of time a teacher spends dealing with paperwork, versus working with students? And does this accountability lead to a diversity-bias?
No More Teaching and Learning
Reading Time: 4 minutes How long before a judgement on ‘Teaching, Learning and Assessment’ is removed from school inspections?
The Habits of School Improvement
Reading Time: 3 minutes What overriding habits exist that result in school improvement?
Smarter Spaces
Reading Time: 4 minutes When you think of a traditional classroom, what images come to mind?
Education Research for Beginners
Reading Time: 5 minutes Why has educational research failed to provide us with any widely accepted sense that we have discovered new and improved ways of educating our children?
Newly Qualified Teachers’ Annual Survey
Reading Time: 2 minutes How good is teacher-training for Newly Qualified Teachers, and what pathway supports those new to the profession?
Outcomes Not Processes
Reading Time: 4 minutes What changes lie ahead for the education sector in England and Wales?
Out With The Old
Reading Time: 3 minutes Whether we agree with the key stage 1 and 2 primary assessment changes or not, it is clear that handwriting, spelling and grammar will now play a hugely increased role in signifying whether a child is working at an age appropriate standard. This will inevitably require teachers to alter the way they teach writing.
A Leap Year Away From Workload Solutions!
Reading Time: 3 minutes What are the latest developments – 12 months on – from the DfE’s workload challenge?
How Many Teachers Do We Need?
Reading Time: 2 minutes Has the DfE got its head in the sand? And does anyone know what they are doing?
An Educational Responsibility
Reading Time: 2 minutes If we could reduce ministerial power, what responsibilities would you take away?