What makes great teaching?
Originally posted on Pragmatic Education: Great teaching combines effective instruction with continuous improvement. If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think—and not make...
View ArticleOral Formative Feedback – Top Ten Strategies
Originally posted on huntingenglish: People who have read my #marginalgains blog posts will know I am going over old ground here – intentionally so – as I am looking to dig deeper towards the key...
View ArticleGrowing Great Teachers – Which research group?
Penn Wood – Growing Great Teachers Key Principles: Working on the ‘bright spots’ – building on existing strengths. The Pareto principle – 20% of teaching strategies yield 80% of the value. Deliberate...
View ArticleMaths Marking and Feedback Decisions
This post is a record of the CPD session from Spring 2014 where we worked on our maths feedback. These are the principles behind the decisions that we make about the type of feedback that we give....
View ArticleHassan’s internal number line
Hassan is a wonderful boy. He’s polite and has a great group of friends. But Hassan started Year 6 working significantly below his peers. His school history is of sustained underachievement with very...
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