The Care and Feeding of Teenagers. Read along for some praise, advice, commiseration, and recipes for feeding both the stomachs and the minds of those not-quite-fully-developed young adults we call teens. Tuesday, July 1, 2014. Triple digits today! R we observe, t he lake has turned over.

As I have now got my own domain name! This site will remain online and will eventually redirect automatically to the new site. This site will no longer be updated. The structure suggested by Cam.

I delivered this talk at the Festival of Education 2017. From my notes and my memory, here is what I said. It is very long and borrows from previous blogs and tweets. I want to argue that education suffers in the U. because we focus too much on how to teach, often in the name of pedagogy, at the expense of any real emphasis on what to teach.

It took three months for the inspection to materialise into a final published report. Many inaccuracies of the draft report were changed but the tone of the report had become damning and cruel. I kept my chin up, you know, for the kids. But deep down I still felt it. I mean, how many RIs have I got left? I went to a conference.

If you have any kind of new idea or question, twitter allows you.

With not even a hint of cohesion between posts. 10 words on the foundation subjects. 10 things you might not have realised about the new Primary English. 10 things you might not have realised about the new Primary Maths.

What can we learn from high performing education systems? December 21, 2013. As we all know, South Korea is one of the top performing countries on the PISA. So what can we take from these systems? Is the on.

Goodbye PGCE, hello NQT! July 1, 2015. For the past 12 months, teaching has taken over my world. Miss, that lesson was the best! I wrote this blogpost for the Cambridge Primary Review Trust.

Brain food for the thinking teacher. Originally posted on Secondary Source. I studied Latin at GCSE. My younger brother studied it to A level and then as a part of a Classics degree. Offer Latin but I have decided to challenge my position on this.