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The DTLLS and GDTLLS Blog: November 2007

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The DTLLS and GDTLLS Blog. All things DTLLS and GDTLLS related. Saturday, 10 November 2007. Sub-standard teachers should be removed from schools to make way for better colleagues, a key government education adviser has suggested. Sir Cyril Taylor said there were about 17,000 "poor" teachers in England. "( BBC. On the other hand. However while there is unlikely to be agreement about who is to blame, there are some areas against which a teacher's ability may be more easily assessed:. Sure there are good te...

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The DTLLS and GDTLLS Blog: October 2007

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The DTLLS and GDTLLS Blog. All things DTLLS and GDTLLS related. Wednesday, 31 October 2007. A-Levels may be scrapped (still. or is it again? This issue seems to have been going on forever, we probably still don't know what is actually going to happen. However I heard an interesting news report on Radio 4's PM that discussed the issue. All the more interesting, considering that I thought the Tomlinson Report was not considered all that credible. LISTEN HERE (Download the item in MP3 format). This blog is ...

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The DTLLS and GDTLLS Blog: Hoorah for Knighted Head Teacher - Now untie the hands of the rest of us...

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The DTLLS and GDTLLS Blog. All things DTLLS and GDTLLS related. Monday, 15 June 2009. Hoorah for Knighted Head Teacher - Now untie the hands of the rest of us. In this years list of knighthoods is included the Head Teacher of Robert Clack School in Dagenham, Paul Grant. I for one applaud this move. He certainly deserves it if the achievements reported by the BBC. Are anything to go by:. Head teacher Paul Grant is credited with restoring discipline to a failing Essex secondary school. Subscribe To RSS Feed.

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The DTLLS and GDTLLS Blog: November 2008

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The DTLLS and GDTLLS Blog. All things DTLLS and GDTLLS related. Monday, 17 November 2008. Learning Styles, Hidden Secrets. Learning style questionnaires, if we are not careful, can be little more than a technicality, especially in my area. After all, how many ways can you teach someone to draw? Explaining how only goes so far, this is not English comprehension, you. To get the students to see it, and do it. This is what we expect for art. However we have 2 students with the reverse. Basically, they don't...

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The DTLLS and GDTLLS Blog: July 2008

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The DTLLS and GDTLLS Blog. All things DTLLS and GDTLLS related. Sunday, 20 July 2008. Accessibility and Colour Blindness. Colour blindness has been more relevant to me this year more than previous years on account of having a colour blind student. Even so, as a teacher, it is helpful to have some understanding of colour blindness so I know what to expect, and can help the student develop strategies to cope with areas of difficulty. One resource I found recently is a website called Vischeck. Now I know wh...

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The DTLLS and GDTLLS Blog: December 2007

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The DTLLS and GDTLLS Blog. All things DTLLS and GDTLLS related. Thursday, 27 December 2007. FE Management Under Scrutiny. While lecturers up and down the country have this notion of F.E. being a business drumed into them by managers in order to instill concern over meeting targets, do F.E. managers understand that F.E. is a business to a degree appropriate for their role? Why do I ask? What then are these lecturers finding in their research? What recommendations are coming out of their analysis? One very...

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The DTLLS and GDTLLS Blog: Learning Styles, Hidden Secrets

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The DTLLS and GDTLLS Blog. All things DTLLS and GDTLLS related. Monday, 17 November 2008. Learning Styles, Hidden Secrets. Learning style questionnaires, if we are not careful, can be little more than a technicality, especially in my area. After all, how many ways can you teach someone to draw? Explaining how only goes so far, this is not English comprehension, you. To get the students to see it, and do it. This is what we expect for art. However we have 2 students with the reverse. Basically, they don't...

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The DTLLS and GDTLLS Blog: Teaching Art or Multimedia (Unit by Unit or Everything Linked?)

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The DTLLS and GDTLLS Blog. All things DTLLS and GDTLLS related. Thursday, 13 November 2008. Teaching Art or Multimedia (Unit by Unit or Everything Linked? At the time (several years ago now) I was so new to teaching that I didn't argue. After all, I am the newbie, what do I know? Instead of seeing the course as 18 units, I began to see teaching and learning in multimedia as being essentially split into just 2 main areas:. Tools and Tool Techniques. I have developed a model to explain this below:. I did n...

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The DTLLS and GDTLLS Blog: Ofsted - Part of the problem?

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The DTLLS and GDTLLS Blog. All things DTLLS and GDTLLS related. Friday, 19 June 2009. Ofsted - Part of the problem? I am sure many (if not most) in the teaching profession would say "yes, of course" to the question above. But while the public mood is to place yet more accountability on those in the public sector (which includes teachers) it is not likely to be an easy task persuading people that actually, the very body which holds the teaching profession most accountable - is part of the problem. One of ...