Focus on the positives – don’t mention the road! Treat someone as if they were the way you want them to be. “If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain as he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and what he could be, […]
Why are we not emulating this system? Are we too hung up on a 1950s style agenda and a rigid, frozen National Curriculum? http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/why-are-finlands-schools-successful-49859555/
“Failing to plan is planning to fail.” I was in business for a few years before I came into education, and I have a lot of these little aphorisms to hand. But this one is spot on. Many battles are won and lost in the planning phase, and I’m not just talking here about lesson […]
