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August | 2015 | The Traditional Teacher

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Wisdom rediscovered for the twenty-first century. The Dangers of the Superteacher Model. August 12, 2015. There is a certain type of book in which superteachers are held before our eyes as the example to follow. They work all hours, organise wonderful trips, create their own resources, produce professional quality theatre and musical extravaganzas . . . There is a moral imperative for those with families to achieve some kind of reasonable trade-off. Equally, individual teachers creating their own wonderf...

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We Need Good Schools to Help Us Become Good Teachers | The Traditional Teacher

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Wisdom rediscovered for the twenty-first century. We Need Good Schools to Help Us Become Good Teachers. April 15, 2015. Noah: he had the right idea, but I don’t think he built that thing single-handed. One of the themes of the whole Teach Like a Champion. Only a few, very exceptional individuals will have the strength of character and intellectual independence to plough their own furrow in an environment that is hostile to learning, because it is so deeply infected with bad ideas. Teach Like a Champion.

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The Dangerous Fantasy of Generalised Understanding | The Traditional Teacher

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Wisdom rediscovered for the twenty-first century. The Dangerous Fantasy of Generalised Understanding. August 2, 2015. Have recently blogged about the distinction between knowledge and understanding, a distinction which has often been used to denigrate what is referred to as ‘mere’ knowledge. Even at a basic level, we can see this in operation. If we consider arithmetic, we can say that mastering the concept of addition requires very little specific knowledge. On the other hand, it takes lots of l...The i...

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The Dangers of the Superteacher Model | The Traditional Teacher

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Wisdom rediscovered for the twenty-first century. The Dangers of the Superteacher Model. August 12, 2015. There is a certain type of book in which superteachers are held before our eyes as the example to follow. They work all hours, organise wonderful trips, create their own resources, produce professional quality theatre and musical extravaganzas . . . There is a moral imperative for those with families to achieve some kind of reasonable trade-off. Equally, individual teachers creating their own wonderf...

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Traditional Methods Can Be Simple, Sustainable and Effective | The Traditional Teacher

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Wisdom rediscovered for the twenty-first century. Traditional Methods Can Be Simple, Sustainable and Effective. April 12, 2015. April 12, 2015. A modern brain filled with Latin. Sweating the Small Stuff. What about when they grow older, get married, start a family? In the call to arms against progressive education, there can be a religious element. One recruiter for the KIPP. Schools compared working for them to a vocation to the priesthood. This reminds one of the tradition of priestly celibacy....I am ...

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Traditional Methods Can Be Simple, Sustainable and Effective | The Traditional Teacher

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Wisdom rediscovered for the twenty-first century. Traditional Methods Can Be Simple, Sustainable and Effective. April 12, 2015. April 12, 2015. A modern brain filled with Latin. Sweating the Small Stuff. What about when they grow older, get married, start a family? In the call to arms against progressive education, there can be a religious element. One recruiter for the KIPP. Schools compared working for them to a vocation to the priesthood. This reminds one of the tradition of priestly celibacy....I am ...

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Healthy Eating for the Mind | The Traditional Teacher

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Wisdom rediscovered for the twenty-first century. Healthy Eating for the Mind. August 11, 2015. August 11, 2015. Medical research can be compared to educational research. Would a drug be trialled on just one small group of patients, without a control sample, before being unleashed on the general public with government approval and large amounts of government funding? This is not about making unreasonable demands on teachers. On the contrary, we need to be convinced that the responsibilities we have a...

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The Dangers of the Superteacher Model | The Traditional Teacher

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Wisdom rediscovered for the twenty-first century. The Dangers of the Superteacher Model. August 12, 2015. There is a certain type of book in which superteachers are held before our eyes as the example to follow. They work all hours, organise wonderful trips, create their own resources, produce professional quality theatre and musical extravaganzas . . . There is a moral imperative for those with families to achieve some kind of reasonable trade-off. Equally, individual teachers creating their own wonderf...

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June | 2015 | The Traditional Teacher

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Wisdom rediscovered for the twenty-first century. Empty ‘Creativity’ Is the Easy Option. June 30, 2015. February 28, 2016. Part of the attack on knowledge which still strongly persists is the labelling of ‘mere’ factual knowledge as ‘lower order’ in the style of Bloom’s Taxonomy. Such a distinction is often based on a false separation of the two and a belief that you can have skills without knowledge. I considered myself fairly conscientious. I did the work required, actually read the books and even ...

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Chinese Experiments and British Culture | The Traditional Teacher

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Wisdom rediscovered for the twenty-first century. Chinese Experiments and British Culture. August 7, 2015. August 7, 2015. It wasn’t as if the BBC reporters were pushing progressive methods explicitly, but this article. Is a classic example of how a deeply ingrained ideology has become so internalised that it doesn’t need to be justified. It is just considered normal, and common sense. Could it be because they are proven and simple methods for inculcating knowledge firmly? But what has created these ‘val...