In my previous post I spoke about the different types of evidence used in education. Here is a concrete example of what I mean. The Educational Endowment Fund have been set up to review the effectiveness of certain educational reforms. They have an overview of a range of different reforms on their website, together with… Read more »
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Stephen Twigg’s announcement of his plans for an Office of Educational Improvement has got a lot of people talking, including me, here. On Lib Dem Voice, Stephen Tall welcomed the proposal, arguing that it would reduce the influence of unevidenced dogma and politicians’ pet whims. But I think that, on the contrary, the body as… Read more »
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Stephen Twigg has made an important speech stating that the problem in the English education system is that there is too much dogma and not enough evidence. Certainly there is some truth in that. I personally am extremely dismayed by the way that the scientific evidence about how humans learn is barely known amongst educators… Read more »
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In last week’s TES, on the contents page there was a little ad for an article in the next edition. It said: A glimpse of the future – Some academies and free schools are abandoning the traditional model of the teacher as the font of all knowledge. Instead they act as a ‘facilitator’ of the… Read more »
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Take a look at this piece of work. This is a level 3c piece of work, taken from an Ofsted report. You can see the rest of it on page 19 of this document. From my experience of teaching English in secondary schools, I find the mistakes that are made here only too typical. Essentially,… Read more »
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In my last post I spoke about how a lot of classroom activities and projects don’t work because they distract pupils from the real content you are trying to teach them about. Most of the examples I spoke about in that post were American, drawn from an article from the American Educator archive and Dan… Read more »
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