High quality school-based mentoring was singled out for needing 'much greater status and recognition' in the Carter Review of initial teacher education in England, and development of national...
How can we be the best professionals possible without making all the mistakes personally? It’s true that we can learn from our own mistakes. We have to recognize them, have the chance to reflect...
Dorothy Heathcote died in October 2011 at the age of 85. Although an academic for most of her life, first at Durham and then at Newcastle, Heathcote continued to teach in classrooms almost up...
So farewell, Nicky Morgan and Michael Gove. Welcome Justine Greening, our third Conservative English Secretary of State for Education since 2010. This is beginning to look a bit like the musical...
If there’s one issue on which Mumsnet users all tend to agree, it’s the importance of education. Not all of them would necessarily say that ‘education’ and ‘schooling’ are exactly the...
In the aftermath of the EU referendum the BBC has published two graphs revealing the English regions where votes were highest for the leave and remain camps. The region topping the leave vote was...
Alea iacta est, the die is cast! With 5am last Friday morning it was obvious that a majority (51.9%) of the UK electorate had voted for BREXIT. By lunchtime it was clear what BREXIT means for the...
Tablets are coming to a school near you. Actually, they’re probably there already. In the UK alone, around ¾ of schools were using tablets in 2015, for over half of lesson time, according to...
Traditionally adults do not consider students as a source of valuable insight about school problems and students are not seen as mature enough to be real partners in change initiatives. Adults’...
A recently completed doctoral research study (Dalladay, 2014) has explored the role of music teacher biography in the planning of musical activities in the secondary school classroom and its...
The practice of ‘differentiation’ in a whole-class setting is an established concept and regarded as being an essential feature of effective pedagogy. As Kerry (2002, p.82) points...
GCSE results published by the Department for Education (DfE) show enormous variations between the performance of English secondary schools. If we are serious about school improvement then it is...