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School Data Updates: The Gift
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Thursday, 16 July 2015. We're all knackered. You've all been teaching forever and I've visited approximately 1000 schools a week since I become self-employed last November. What I want to do right now is talk to my family, watch the Big Bang Theory, drink some beer and then sod off to France in a couple of weeks and go climbing. The last thing I wanted to do this evening was write a blog. But then the DfE published this research into the reception baseline. Then they appear to have let their guard down.
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jonpatrick | Pedfed
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Educators shootin' from the hip. Primary school teacher and head of year two at an all through school in London. This year’s primary assessment data will be useless because everyone is going to just game it. The new assessment criteria. Alongside the statements, there is clear guidance in how children should be assessed. Most importantly:. Children should only be assessed once they have completed the key stage. The statements should not be used for ‘tracking’ progress part way through the year. During a ...
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Is realist review the best approach for synthesising evidence on widening participation in higher education? | Imperfect Research
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Kirsty's education / research blog. Is realist review the best approach for synthesising evidence on widening participation in higher education? Some of the key findings of our review were:. There isn’t much ‘robust’ (i.e. randomised trial or high-quality quasi-experiment) evidence about any WP interventions, and. One of the things mostly likely to work are ‘black box’-type programmes lots of different elements combined in a package, so that the trial doesn’t tell you. Relates to health policy interventi...
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Blogs I follow… | Reflections of a science teacher…
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Reflections of a science teacher…. Blogs I follow…. Blogs I follow…. Below are some links to various blogs (general, physics and data manager) that I subscribe to:. Serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions. The Science Echo Chamber. General science re-blogging website. Icing on the cake. Follow me on Twitter. Intervention strategies for A-level physics (and A-level science in general). Beware the formula triangle! Improving the gender imbalance in A-level physics.
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Why we need subject specialists in primary | Pedfed
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Educators shootin' from the hip. Why we need subject specialists in primary. This article was originally published in Teach Primary. Which is a wonderful magazine that is well worth subscribing to. The other articles are all better than this one. This topic became the subject for my recent talk at Pedagoo, where I received really interesting and insightful feedback from both primary and secondary teachers. I’ll blog about that soon. Whilst teaching the stone age recently, I found myself stumped on numero...
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Why I love highlighters! | Pedfed
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Educators shootin' from the hip. Why I love highlighters! This is a response to Alex Quigley’s excellent post. Why I hate highlighers! Which I encourage you to read. This week I’ll be teaching children to write a newspaper report. The learning will roughly follow this structure:. Introduce children to the text type. Agree on the purpose of the text. Investigate which techniques help the text to be effective in terms of achieving its purpose. Write the text type using (1) – (5). We are writing to inform.
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What shouldn’t we teach in primary? | Pedfed
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Educators shootin' from the hip. What shouldn’t we teach in primary? The Guardian have just published a list of things. That teachers would like to be removed from the curriculum. They didn’t have any primary representation so they emailed me and ask for comment. Below is what I sent, which they decided not to use as it doesn’t really give a specific ‘unit’. But since I wrote it I thought I might as well share it here. Ultimately, if we want to know what should be cut from primary, we should probably ope...
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Behaviour | Pedfed
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Educators shootin' from the hip. I’m delighted that Tom Bennett has been appointed to oversee behaviour policy by Nicky Morgan. It’s particular heartening that the DfE has selected a practising teacher. Tom’s a great choice because I know that he spends a lot of his spare time talking to teachers far and wide, and has not only first-hand experience but one of the most comprehensive ‘second-hand experience banks’ out there. Because of the very fact that they are. Effective. They teach compliance, obed...
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Is there a ‘cargo cult’ approach to school improvement? | Evidence into Practice
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Resources from this blog. Results and analysis – part 1. Results and analysis – part 2. Results and analysis – Part 3. Results and analysis – part 4. Pseudoscience has nested in schools. Has the marshmallow melted? Interventions involving executive functioning may have little effect. →. Is there a ‘cargo cult’ approach to school improvement? How do we know that the bottom performing companies aren’t doing the same thing? It might be the case that the most successful and the least successful companies do ...