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“It is perhaps education’s equivalent to the search for the Holy Grail” commented Warwick Mansell on 23 September 2009. From here came the arrival of, for some people, an age of...
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In the light of the House of Commons Education Committee Inquiry into the purpose and quality of education, I’ve been pondering on the primary profession’s long-term goals for teaching reading...
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Career-long professional learning and professional development is something we have been thinking and talking about for many years now, but we don't seem to have cracked this particular conundrum...
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You are like a hurricane. There's calm in your eye. - Neil Young In Flanders, the government recently commissioned a review of Flemish teacher education. The final report, with the interesting...
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There is an impending crisis in the numbers of teachers in schools. This is message that I have heard time and again at the various conferences I have attended in recent weeks looking at the...
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What happens when teachers work with assessment resources that are introduced to schools, accompanied by expectations of instructional change? This question was the focus of my article in the...
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The issue of effectively engaging linguistically and culturally diverse students is one that preoccupies teachers and researchers alike, resonating across rural, suburban, urban, mainstream and...
Continue readingAt a national and international level, research on very low attaining pupils of secondary age is rare compared to younger age groups, and while there has been increased interest in the past decade...
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In 2014, ReadingWise invited us to carry out an independent study of its Computer-Based Literacy Programme for Accelerated Reading Acquisition. Following exploratory meetings, schools and adult...
Continue readingThe ‘tragedy of the commons’ is a well-known tenet of public, and especially environmental policy. The ‘commons’ refers to a resource shared by many individuals who can use a portion of it...
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What does the term ‘Characteristic Spirit’ mean? What is the ‘Characteristic Spirit’ of a publicly-managed, Education and Training Board school? Questions such as these are the concern of...
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Should we 'teach' interdisciplinarity at school? This blog post suggests that we should. If you think of real world problems in engineering, health, politics and so on, these require...
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