Support the Core Knowledge Foundation. An appraisal of Core Knowledge Language Arts. The American Federation of Teachers.

A guide to this blog. I write about curriculum, teaching, leadership, English and reading. You can read about what education means to me and why I do what I do here. Shaping the curriculum with memory.

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.

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.

Any views or opinions presented in this blog are solely those of the author. The Cost of Ideological Purity. I have a memory of school from when I was about 9. It meant that mum had to bring all 3 of us home at lunchtimes. She said she was fasting. As a child I accepted the explanation and carried on eating and chatting away as one does at that age. So then maybe culturally? .

Thoughts on education from a secondary-school teacher. Some years ago, we used to use an exercise called. There is no other way.

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Reflections on maths pedagogy, education, and teaching craft. In September I started teaching at Michaela. In strategies; or on making textbooks. So it felt like a natural fit.

My two cents for MFL Trainees. On Le début détermine la fin. On Le début détermine la fin. Le début détermine la fin.

The resuscitated thoughts of Katharine Birbalsingh, Headmistress at Michaela. When the facts change, I change my mind. I am writing this post because some people have asked for clarification of some of the quotes in the recent Guardian article by Richard Adams on Michaela. Can I remember precisely what was said over several hours? No Did Richard Adams deliberately look for the most salacious things said to quote out of context so as to get a rise from his readers? Do I think that in mo.