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Lessons for Ed-Research from Quantum Gravity via @carlorovelli
I recently read this fabulous book by Carlo Rovelli. The book works on many levels. It is an attempt to explain the emerging theory of quantum gravity. This has numerous mind-blowing conceptual elements – such as the idea that spacetime is quantized, that time isn’t really a fundamental thing that ticks forward – it’s just … Continue reading
You’re doing it all wrong: context and complexity in Ed-research and debate.
It’s continually frustrating to me that so much of the discourse in our debates and in the reading of education research reduces teaching and learning effects to crude averages and sweeping assumptions, ignoring complexity and context At the same time, it’s equally frustrating that some people’s response to this complexity is to reinforce a … Continue reading
Research Evidence that has shaped what we do. #rEdYork
My presentation at ResearchEd in York was an attempt to outline some of the research that has had a direct or indirect influence on our practice at Highbury Grove. Here is a summary. The ideas we are working on at HGS include the following list; many of the ideas come from blogs. I’ve written about … Continue reading
Great Teaching: Informed wisdom in the heat of every day practice. #EducationFest 2016
Here are the slides from my talk at the Education Festival at Wellington. The thrust of my talk was sharing the process I’ve been on as a teacher and leader in my school, helping teachers (and myself) to develop the most appropriate knowledge and strategies – the informed wisdom – needed to make … 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
The people who’ve influenced me in 2015
In my day-to-day working life, there are several key people who I look to for solutions, for inspiration and for wisdom. I’m lucky that my immediate team now comprises people who I respect enormously; people who will tell me what they think and offer alternatives; people whose perspectives matter to me a great deal. There … Continue reading
Research Literacy: Literacy Research
This post contains the key ideas and materials from my presentation at ResearchEd 2015. It seems to me that a high proportion of discussion about research in education doesn’t actually make reference to specific research evidence or trials. I’ve decided that every time I give a talk at ResearchEd, I will look at the … Continue reading
Challengers and Champions. Are we ready to listen?
Following all the discussions at the ResearchEd conference last weekend, I’ve been thinking about the balance we need to strike when presented with new ideas or when we’re presenting them ourselves. We need to be open to the possibility that a strategy might be a good one whilst remaining confident that, as professionals, we’ll … Continue reading
Do your homework: Acting on evidence from educational research #rED14
These are the slides from my talk at ResearchEd 2014. The aim of the talk is to look at four different kinds of research and to consider the extent to which teachers might accept the findings and then allow them to influence their practice. I’ve chosen four contrasting forms of research. 1. John Hattie’s meta-analysis … 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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