Asymp; Leave a comment. Sorry No voice was heard from the clouds. The reasons people follow a particular path can be complex and varied. The traffic into the orders went into reverse in the mid sixties.

ManYana Ltd, Achieving Tomorrow, Today. Education, training and consultancy. Tuesday, 29 March 2016. When you set an activity, or tell a story, or show a video to help a child learn one of the inevitable consequences is that they will devote some of their thinking to extraneous matters. Some of these are difficult to avoid. The argument you had with your mate. The fact that the room is too cold or too hot. For the above poster .

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.

You might not have enough. You would need to remember what it looked like before to have any hope of restoring it, but the bulldozer destroyed your photos and records. The details are hazy now.

This week, we carried out our first set of nationally standardised assessments. These show the progress our pupils have made throughout the year in reading, English and Maths. How to get them reading. Which diagnostic assessments are useful? Vocabulary a.

A guide to this blog. I write about teaching, research, curriculum and assessment, teacher training, leadership and the education system. Knowledge, memory and practice. Three applications of cognitive science. Visible learning and cognitive science.

Originally posted on Confessions of an Ex-Teacher. So here I am, five months since leaving the teaching profession and I feel human and more than great. Originally posted on Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice. The application and interview process.

Reading on Knowledge, Memory and Learning. The new national curriculum this year brought with it some changes in grammatical terminology. One of these changes saw simple, compound and complex sentences become single clause, multi clause coordinated and multi clause subordinated sentences. This post explains an analogy to teach this aspect of grammar. The challenge can be increase.

Wisdom rediscovered for the twenty-first century. The Dangers of the Superteacher Model. There is a certain type of book in which superteachers are held before our eyes as the example to follow. They work all hours, organise wonderful trips, create their own resources, produce professional quality theatre and musical extravaganzas . There is a moral imperative for those with families to achieve some kind of reasonable trade-off. Equally, individual teachers creating their own wonderf.