Today I have the opportunity to discuss with policy makers about the role of research evidence in education, in a CEBE (Coalition for a Evidence-based Education) event at the Department …
Whose Canon is it Anyway?
Few things in education are as spectacularly emotive and ire-inducing as the choice of books we read for English Literature in schools. This last week we have seen Gove receive …
Evidence in Education and Building Bridges
The drive for research evidence being used in education has achieved something quite radical in our time: it has been met with near universal political consensus. You won’t hear Gove …
Questions About Initial Teacher Training
We can all agree that one sound method of improving our school system is to attract great candidates into the profession, before training them brilliantly, and then keeping them so …
Progress being made, but OFSTED are still Requiring Improvement
(Image via http://www.keepcalm-o-matic.co.uk/p/keep-calm-its-only-ofsted-17/) Over four months ago I wrote an article beginning with the question: ‘What does Ofsted want?’ I stated that this question is perhaps the most powerful question …
A New English Curriculum
Shining a Light on the Literary Canon “…the more familiar we become with the nature of these shaping forms and forces lying beneath the surface of stories, pushing them into …
Why Michael Gove is Wrong about Qualified Teacher Status
‘Who wants highly qualified teachers?’ This week Nick Clegg attempted to emerge from the shadow of David Cameron and Michael Gove by impressing his own (focus group friendly) opinion on …
Teaching and Learning the Literary Canon
“To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight …
Authentic Assessment: Assessing Speaking and Listening
Does public speaking matter? What do the Houses of Parliament, the Oxford Union, big business board rooms, assembly halls and court chambers have in common? They are the seats of …
Reading Fast and Slow
Reading too slowly? The movement towards a ‘slow education‘, encompassing deeper, richer learning experiences, is surely the antidote to our assessment driven, checkpoint laden curriculum. In my previous post I …
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