Confident Teacher

There are trillions of selections lecturers make once they train. This dizzying complexity makes instructing rewarding, tiring, anxious, and generally even thrilling.  Understandably, confronted with the complexity of the classroom, lecturers …

The reality of the Covid pandemic has seen millions of pupils thrust into a position remote home learning. A stark truth is that pupils learn most when they are in …

The one assure you get from the job of educating is that you’ll study and fail. The trick – properly, doing a little bit extra studying than failing, while making …

“You know, when you find yourself having to raise your voice, and your heart starts pounding, and you start realizing that things are not going the way you had planned, …

“In training, the one manner to enhance is to cease individuals doing good issues, to present them time to do even higher issues.” Dylan Wiliam It seems like a trite …

Every so often the issue of marking and feedback emerges and fractious debates kick off. Teachers with marking ingrained as a daily habit, can view it as essential; whereas, many …

As curriculum is advanced, we routinely hunt down a plethora of useful metaphors and analogies to make sense of it. And so, lately curriculum has not too long ago been …

This brief sequence is focused at literacy leaders – both Literacy Coordinators, Studying Leads, or Curriculum Deputies – with a key function in main literacy to make sure that pupils …

Since 2012, I’ve written quite a few posts about suggestions and marking. That is no shock given our faculty system has been seemingly addicted to creating ‘progress’ seen, with suggestions …

It is time to talk… about the importance of academic talk. Since the beginning of the year, I have worked with lots of school leaders, with discussions quickly turning to …