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Category Archives: CPD Notes
SHP2014: Big History plenary
This plenary, with Denis Shemilt and Frances Blow, links in with the workshop I went to this afternoon. Frances begins by defining big history. The study of human kind through time and space from the first modern humans to the … Continue reading
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SHP2014: Dan Nuttall and Laura Goodyear
Dan and Laura are running a workshop on “Big Picture, Small Details” using their study of the slave trade as an example. They aimed to raise historical consciousness, connecting past, present and future and recognising their place in time. They … Continue reading
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SHP2014: Don Cumming
SHP number 26 opens with glorious weather, as it always seems to. The first session is Don Cumming, talking on “Our island story: really?!” Don says that some of huge changes make him feel a bit like Statler and Waldorf … Continue reading
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Edfest: Early Reflection
In a repeat of last year, I went to the Festival of Education with my friend and colleague, Tut. To say that Tut was on one this year would be something of an understatement: I put this down to her … Continue reading
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Edfest: Wilson
Gary Wilson is speaking about breaking through barriers to boys’ achievement. I’m late. I hear that boys start the stray from education in around year 8. In 1993 he started to work with the parents. There was an 18% achievement … Continue reading
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Edfest: Claire Fox, Keith Vaz, David Starkey, Katie Hopkins
These four are debating what children should learn for the future, chaired by Alice Thompson. Katie begins. She has advice. Completely reverse our current trend by leaving behind those who are not worth the effort. Social mobility upsets her deeply. … Continue reading
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Edfest: Barton
Geoff is speaking on the habits of the word rich. He’s basing it on a book called the Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg, who says that 40% of our daily actions are habits! because the brain is constantly looking … Continue reading
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Edfest: Bristow
Rod Bristow is the head of Pearson and is talking about their new approach to developing assessment, which they have dubbed “The Path to Efficacy”. How can we have a measurable, positive impact on learner lives? The importance of measurement … Continue reading
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Edfest: Blakemore
I have been looking forward to hearing Sarah speak about the teenage brain ever since hearing her at TLAB in March: even though I think much of what she says will be a repeat, I do think I bears repeating. … Continue reading
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Edfest: Adonis
I was sorry I missed Adonis last year, so pleased to have made it for this year’s talk on “Where next?” Back in the mid 1990s with the first national key stage 2 tests, there was a big sense of … Continue reading
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