Students’ anxiety about the allocations of grades for cancelled high-stakes public examinations
‘My main anxiety at the moment is how I am going to be graded.’
Continue reading blog post‘My main anxiety at the moment is how I am going to be graded.’
Continue reading blog postInfrastructure – ignored and invisible – is usually taken for granted, until it goes wrong. We notice when the Wi-Fi signal drops out or when there’s a power cut. The lockdowns, physical...
Continue reading blog postIn common with most teacher educators, I am a big fan of classroom talk. I continually stress to my English subject trainee teachers the huge value of the spoken word and invite them to be...
Continue reading blog postIn pre-Covid England, early childhood education and care (ECEC) was already in a state of uncertainty. A maelstrom of structural conditions and an onslaught of initiatives had manifested as...
Continue reading blog postThe role of attachment theory in education has frequently been questioned, as typified in the recent Twitter exchange on ‘edutwitter’ below. Figure 1: Anonymised screenshot of a tweet and...
Continue reading blog postAcross England, most secondary-level students will be receiving predicted grades at the end of this year. These grades may determine their entry into further education or a particular workforce....
Continue reading blog post‘The ability to collaborate on both a small- and large-scale is becoming one of the core requisites of postmodern society’ (Fullan, 1993, p.5). Yet it is ‘still relatively rare for children...
Continue reading blog post‘Have you thought about including recordings of these stories as part of your thesis? It’s just that reading them out loud was really powerful for those of us listening.’ I stopped. To be...
Continue reading blog postIn October 2019 I travelled to the US to explore the benefits of oracy-centred teaching strategies and expeditionary learning for the development of the speaking, listening, reading and writing...
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