Month: May 2017

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Don’t go on a massive spending spree and then blame someone else for the fact that you haven’t got any money.

I try really hard here not to get too political which, as anyone who knows me will agree, is REALLY difficult for me. But I had to add something to the education funding debate, something to which not enough people are explicitly drawing attention. When Michael Gove originally came up with his new (or ‘repro’, […]

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“I can” objective setting.

Objective setting is one of those areas where official advice changes with head-spinning rapidity. And don’t get me started on learning outcomes v learning objectives. The strictly positive teacher wants students to know when they come in the room what they are going to learn, and to know that they have learned it when they […]