How do we know pupils are making progress? Part 3: Assessment
In Part 1 of this series I set out the problems with making predictions about students’ progress by ...
How do we know pupils are making progress? Part 2: The curriculum
In my last post, I set out the problems with making predictions about students’ progress by drawing ...
How do we know pupils are making progress? Part 1: The madness of flight paths
Schools are desperate to find ways to predict students’ progress from year to year and between key ...
If you tolerate this then your children will be next
What kinds of poor behaviour should we tolerate? How much should we tolerate? There’s a wellspring of ...
Ofsted and deeper learning: it’s like learning, but deeper
Recently, I was contacted by a school who wanted some help working on ‘deeper learning’. I asked ...
What do students think about marking?
Over the past year or so, I’ve been doing some very informal research into students’ attitudes and ...