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EVENT: Powerful Curriculum Design
If you are interested in curriculum design, this one-day course could be the perfect opportunity to explore a range of powerful ideas to take your school forward. Martin Robinson and I will be delivering the programme based on our experience working with schools around the country. Please come and join us for what promises to … Continue reading
School Leadership in 12 slides.
Last week I was asked to lead a workshop on leadership for some middle and senior leaders. Here are some of the ideas I shared. Believe me, I’m not preaching from on high. I’ve had some successes but there isn’t a day that goes by when I don’t run through some kind of imagined … Continue reading
Ten teaching techniques to practise – deliberately.
It’s a well-established idea that, to develop expertise in a particular skill or technique, you need to practise. The more you practise, the better you get. As outlined by the excellent people at Deans for Impact in their Practice with Purpose document, it helps to identify a specific element of your teaching to practise on and … Continue reading
Schools should be more teacher-centred.
The idea that schools should be more teacher centred has been gathering momentum in my thinking. In fact, the whole education system should be more teacher centred. Ridiculously, to some folk, that will sound regressive – because we’re supposed to say that everything we do is for the children. Well, of course. Schools are set … Continue reading
Culture + Systems: The Spirit and The Letter
This is a slide I’ve used multiple times in various CPD sessions. It’s a theme I return to over and over. In numerous aspects of school leadership, I feel it’s important to consider the need to develop both the systems and the culture within which they operate, explicitly, deliberately and simultaneously. Systems don’t work … Continue reading
HGS CPD: Festival of Learning 2016:
On Friday we held our second annual Festival of Learning following the success of the event we held last year. Once again we were delighted to run this collaboratively with our colleagues from Samuel Rhodes School, our co-located special school partners . Here’s a flavour of the ideas that were shared. Teachmeet: A series of … Continue reading
Built-in CPD. Our new model.
This is the cover of our newly published CPD booklet that sets out our master plan for next year. ‘Continuing’ has somehow morphed into ‘Continual’ which I rather like! I’m thrilled that, after some consultation with parents, governors have approved our new built-in CPD approach. This follows the model used at John Tomsett’s Huntington School … Continue reading
HGS CPD. Festival of Learning Part 2: The Ideas Marketplace
This post follows directly from Festival of Learning Part 1. The Teachmeet. The second part of our CPD day was based on a model that we developed when I was at KEGS – reported in this post. The marketplace model was always going to be one of the ideas I imported. The basic instruction to … Continue reading
RSA Essays: Licensed to Create? Incentives for improving teacher quality.
Today, the RSA has published a collection of 10 essays on the theme of improving teacher quality and the concept of licensing. This has been, in part, stimulated by Tristram Hunt’s policy proposals. I was delighted to have been invited to contribute an essay and I have included mine in full below. Interestingly, the … Continue reading
Contemporary educational ideas all teachers should know about
As I was looking ahead to starting a new job as Headteacher, I was thinking about all the conversations we were going to have about learning. To a large degree I wanted my teachers to be as up-to-date as possible within their own subject domains. They should know the latest OfSTED position ( eg with … Continue reading
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