Inclusive Teaching Checklist
Reading Time: < 1 minute How can you tell if you’ve maximised inclusion in the classroom?
Tag: observation
What Happens When Teachers Get More Feedback?
Reading Time: 2 minutes Does increased feedback have a positive impact on teachers’ classroom practice?
Can You Identify A Good Teacher? No Chance!
Reading Time: 3 minutes Do you think you could identify a successful teacher when you see one?
10 Risks A Senior Teacher Could Take This Academic Year
Reading Time: 3 minutes If you are (or know) a senior teacher, what ‘risks’ could a school leader take this academic year?
Nail That Job!
Reading Time: 3 minutes How can teachers ‘nail that new-job‘ at interview?
A Culture of Lesson Observations
Reading Time: 4 minutes Almost three months have now passed since Ofsted announced the ground-breaking news, that inspectors would no longer be grading individual lessons. Except that it wasn’t that ground-breaking. Apparently, this had been their instructions since 2009. Who knew?
Progress over time #POTteaching: by @TeacherToolkit
Reading Time: 5 minutes These are notes have been shared with our (G2O) Good to Outstanding group. We have asked ourselves at leadership; as well as with our G2O group, what is ‘progress over time‘?
#Peepshows and #Rubbernecks by @TeacherToolkit
Reading Time: 5 minutes Now that I have your attention; this post is all about marking; feedback; re-drafting and book scrutiny.
Why I’m Placing Learning Walks in Room 101
Reading Time: 9 minutes (July 2021) Reflecting on this blog post from 2013, I look back on how far the teaching profession has moved forward.
Thwart the Grim-Reaper: #Ofsted reworks (Sep ’13)
Reading Time: 7 minutes Here are some key Ofsted (September 2013) updates relevant to teaching and learning in the classroom. I have provided a summary of what will change for the teacher alone; ignoring all other updates. Any text in red, is crucial to ‘Thwart the Grim-Reaper’ from entering your classroom this academic year.
#RapidProgress in my classroom: How it is made and how do I know it? #BlogSync
Reading Time: 3 minutes Disclosure: I proclaim nothing new here – so my cards are on the table from the outset. Contain your disappointment!… What this post hopes to highlight, as part of @Eductronic_Net’s fantastic #BlogSync collaboration; is just a simple classroom technique that I KNOW works well – in every lesson I teach – and coincidentally, is perfect evidence for those formal observation […]
12 Days of Christmas, My Headteacher Gave To Me
Reading Time: 2 minutes Some light-hearted fun for the Christmas season …