Blog of the week
Warm/Strict: we enforce rules because we care – Thahmina Begum
In this blog Thahmina looks at the reasons why we might not sanction a student, why we should and how we can stop it getting to that point.
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How we are tackling educational disadvantage – Shaun Allison
Shaun describes how we are planning our professional development to tackle educational disadvantages.
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Relative Performance Feedback: Unnecessarily cruel or a useful tool? – Ben Crockett
Ben explores the idea of relative performance feedback and considers how it might inform our approach to assessment.
Other Useful Links
- Mark Enser looks at how we turn the aspiration of high expectations into a classroom reality.
- Kat Howard explores teaching when they haven’t got it.
- Daisy Holland-Selby tackles the question – how do we solve the problem of motivation?
- John Eaton unpicks what we mean by self explanation and how it works.
- Sean Harris discusses what disadvantage might do to our cognitive functions and what we can do about it as teachers.
- Jo Castelino on the importance of classroom routines.
- Blake Harvard shares how he is supporting his students with before, during and after thinking strategies.
Free Webinar
Date: 8th March
Time: 3.30pm
Title: Routines & Relationships
Led by: Ben Crockett
Registration here:
You can view the recordings from last year here:
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