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Edfest: Guy Claxton

Posted on June 21, 2013 by sallythorne

Claxton was so popular in his first session that Katie Price was bumped into lunch and he’s repeating his session, which is again full. He starts by talking about useful attitude for life. This is familiar from Bill Lucas at … Continue reading →

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Edfest: Leadership for the Future

Posted on June 21, 2013 by sallythorne

Chris Husbands from the Institute of Education talking about future school leaders. Wooden floor and lots of late comers making it difficult to hear and follow the first part. Are we heading for a fully marketised school system? Chile operates … Continue reading →

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Edfest: Wilshaw

Posted on June 21, 2013 by sallythorne

Wilshaw encourages us to be bold. We can’t go back, he says, to a system of bland reports from perfunctory inspections of the 70s and 80s. Even in 1992, 40% of children didn’t achieve 5A-Cs. Now more than double that … Continue reading →

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Boosting progress: a Teachmeet/TLAB mash up

Posted on June 2, 2013 by sallythorne

I’ve been very focused this year on improving outcomes for students at key stage three. Last year I introduced the verbal assessment, which worked extremely well; but some students struggled to maintain it, let alone better it, when it came … Continue reading →

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Behaviour Management Musings

Posted on March 25, 2013 by sallythorne

I responded to a tweet from @GuardianTeach about managing classroom behaviour today. I got a lot of retweets and several disagree-ers, most of whom seemed to read my tweet and make enormous generalisations about my other views on behaviour at … Continue reading →

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#TLAB13 – Quick Wins

Posted on March 18, 2013 by sallythorne

Year 8 preparing for their assessment on the British Empire, based on Neal Watkin’s plan for improving standards in writing. Two of my students bravely filmed their conversation in The Cupboard Of Secret Learning and agreed to be watched by … Continue reading →

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Third Keynote: Bill Rankin

Posted on March 16, 2013 by sallythorne

Bill Rankin on sustainable learning in the post-PC world. He starts with a short history of indoor lighting. He asks: which light is best? Depends on what you’re trying to achieve – mood? Quality? Durability? Pervasiveness? Sustainability. “If you want … Continue reading →

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Workshop three: David Rogers

Posted on March 16, 2013 by sallythorne

Inspirational Geography David starts with a starter idea: show the image on Bing and get students to predict what jobs are to do with that image. “With Google you can pretend to be educated.” “If we didn’t think we could … Continue reading →

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Second Keynote: Bill Lucas

Posted on March 16, 2013 by sallythorne

Expansive Education: what is is, why it really matters and what we might like to do about it. @eed_net We begin with some puzzles to warm up, showing how context is important and it’s important to hold back and consider … Continue reading →

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TLAB13 second workshop: Neal Watkin

Posted on March 16, 2013 by sallythorne

Neal begins by talking about the classroom rules for quality writing: practice makes perfect. Make it meaningful. We then have a mystery: who is Noor Inayat Khan and why is she significant? How certain are we? Neal gives us some … Continue reading →

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