Teechers – a rant
Isn’t it interesting that as the statistics of exam success rise each year and as the chorus of governmental self-congratulation grows ever louder, that we now have demands for a 5-year MOT for teachers? I asked C who still teaches a day a week in school what she thought of this. She [...]
Labour to junk Tony Blair’s flagship school reform
Headteachers to get more powers as era of centralised control ends
Farewell then the Numeracy and Literacy Strategy, all the heartache and disillusion these strategies have caused. For me the Literacy Strategy was always worse than the Numeracy, but then I’ve always found maths easier to teach. Just that [...]
Well put article in the Guardian this morning explains ‘Ofsted Newspeak’
Just trying to keep the inspectors satisfied
It’s now a mark of dishonour to be labelled a ’satisfactory’ teacher, says Phil Beadle
Guardian 24/03/2009
“No more. What should we read into the change to the bald four grades currently in use, where lessons are either “outstanding”, “good”, “satisfactory” [...]
An article today in the Guardian on John Macbeath. I’d not heard of him before but he sounds like an inspiring chap and if he was vilified by Chris Woodhead he must have some good ideas.
Free school thinker by Peter Wilby in the Guardian. 13/01/2009
An invitation to look again at Ivan illich cropped up in [...]
Ofsted’s new mission – to get rid of boring teachers. Polly Curtis in the Guardian.
‘Pedestrian teaching’ they say. Hmm this might have something to do with the curriculum? Isn’t there a move to belatedly change it; to make it more investigative, relevant, inspiring, up to date, cross curricular, creative and [...]
Following on from last week’s announcements about the Primary Curriculum.
There was a a measured response in today’s, Guardian by a headteacher in Fareham.
Wise man’s report is a gift.
Report by Kevin Harcombe.
ATM’s response here.
Extraordinary announcements today. The one flaw seems to be SATs – any discussion of these was outside the remit of the review.
SATs – “the elephant in the room” and of course it is the tests themselves.
Sir Jim Rose’s Interim report into the Primary Curriculum advocates ‘areas of learning’ rather than the traditional subject based curriculum.
Lessons [...]
Professor Stephen Heppell’s keynote for the K12 online conference.
MAJOR REFORMS TO SCHOOL ACCOUNTABILITY INCLUDING AN END TO COMPULSORY NATIONAL TESTS FOR FOURTEEN YEAR OLDS.
But
Ed Balls said that externally marked Key Stage 2 tests were critically important and would continue as the key source of information for parents and the public about standards in primary schools.
‘Key Stage 2 tests are a robust, objective [...]
Stumbled across this on Drake’s Takes.
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