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Conspicuous work: do we compound the workload issue ourselves? | Othmar's Trombone
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Conspicuous work: do we compound the workload issue ourselves? July 30, 2015. Assistant to the general manager! Do you know what that means? He could be asking my advice on trades. Trades, Jerry! I’m a heart beat away! That’s a hell of an organisation they are running up there. I can’t understand why they haven’t won a pennant in 15 years. Between the two of them, they think I’m working an 18-hour day! Locking your keys in the car is the best career move you ever made. Seinfeld ‘The Caddy’. Seeing quite ...
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Are these the best English subject textbooks you’ve ever seen? | Othmar's Trombone
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Are these the best English subject textbooks you’ve ever seen? July 26, 2015. Textbooks have been in the news this past academic year. We’ve been told by Nick Gibb. To shed our “anti-textbook ethos”, whilst U.S. education advisor Richard Culatta has said. That British schools should scrap textbooks because they “are outdated, they are in a format that it’s not adaptable, and for students learning in other languages, they can’t press the word and get a definition.”. As well as David James. 8216; book (tar...
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Knowledge is obsolete! Unburden yourself here… | Othmar's Trombone
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Unburden yourself here…. June 13, 2015. I have been following the tweets. With interest. As always with education conferences, there are some really smart ideas tossed out and hashtagged for posterity. But every now and again one of these edu-summits spews out a thought that is a real game changer. I think this may be that very thought:. Knowledge is becoming obsolete. With @Alastair Arnott. 10;
Knowing how over knowing what! Mdash; Rachel Orr (@RachelOrr) June 13, 2015. Knowledge is becoming obsolete.
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Jekyll – Knowledge Organiser. 2 thoughts on “Resources”. May 25, 2015 at 7:43 am. Thanks for this James, it will be most useful🙂. May 26, 2015 at 12:34 pm. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out. Notify me of new comments via email.
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Any views or opinions presented in this blog are solely those of the author. The Cost of Ideological Purity. Ideological purity costs the poorest the most. March 23, 2016. Not Waving But Drowning. March 22, 2016. March 21, 2016. EEE Principle 1 Great Teaching. March 20, 2016. February 29, 2016. No Preferred Method of Teaching? February 27, 2016. February 25, 2016. Moving on from Maslow. February 22, 2016. Maslow’s Hierarchy Critique Part Two. February 18, 2016. Maslow’s Hierarchy Critique Part One.
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education – Teachwell
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Any views or opinions presented in this blog are solely those of the author. I have wanted to go to Michaela for about a year now. Well, I was at the Michaela debate but that was sans children. Thanks to Naureen (@5N Afzal), who arranged it all, I finally got to visit today. We started the tour with a chat with Katharine in her office. I can imagine her detractors…. Not Waving But Drowning. EEE – Principle 1 – Great Teaching. Last Thursday, I, along with other bloggers, was invited to a meeting with Nick...
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Any views or opinions presented in this blog are solely those of the author. Parents and Children as Consumers (Updated). Parents responded to Seldon’s comments about narcissistic parents with demands of being treated as consumers. This post explores the sense of entitlement at the taxpayers expense. March 23, 2016. Not Waving But Drowning. March 22, 2016. March 21, 2016. EEE Principle 1 Great Teaching. March 20, 2016. February 29, 2016. No Preferred Method of Teaching? February 27, 2016. Instructing and...
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education – Teachwell
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Any views or opinions presented in this blog are solely those of the author. Can Cross Curricular Be Brilliant? There are times when I get it completely wrong. At first glance, the paperclip butterfly picture, introducing Sinead Gaffney’s (@shinpad1) article in TES this week, jumped out as a trigger warning of child-centredness. Her article though is an eloquently argued piece, insightful and gives coverage to the realities of teaching younger children which are more…. Why Do Crybullies Go To University?
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Parents and Children as Consumers (Updated) – Teachwell
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Any views or opinions presented in this blog are solely those of the author. Parents and Children as Consumers (Updated). June 27, 2015. June 29, 2015. Https:/ commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:About.me icon.jpg. I read the following article yesterday ( here. I had to actually stop myself from laughing. It is true that both parents and children have been encouraged to see themselves as consumers of the product that is education and that they have rights extending as a result of this. The first hurdle for t...
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Politics – Teachwell
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Any views or opinions presented in this blog are solely those of the author. Not Waving But Drowning. Having argued that the ability to mass academise schools is not undemocratic, I read this today from @dutaut – here where he argues that it is not undemocratic but anti-democratic. First things first: “Simply put, it (democracy) is a governmental system which allows people to hold their political leaders to account. They do this at…. EEE – Principle 1 – Great Teaching. The Cost of Ideological Purity.