Daniel Willingham – Home

Daniel Willingham – Home 19/04/2011 – An American Professor of Educational Psychology, Daniel Willingham makes a lot of sense. Good ammunition to use against those who would inflict Brain Gym or rigidity of learning styles on your classroom.  The article on memory is very informative, too.

BBC NEWS | Education | Is it time to trust the teachers?

BBC NEWS | Education | Is it time to trust the teachers? 5/7/09 – Unequivocally, YES!

Up to 15 teachers a day call in sick…

From last Tuesday’s Independent: By Andy McSmith Tuesday, 30 December 2008 Teachers taking time off for sickness cost almost three million working days in England alone last year, an increase of almost a fifth in a decade. On an ordinary school day, an average of 15,000 teachers are off sick across the country, according to [...]

Segregation at Secondary Schools, Narrowed Primary Curriculum

BBC NEWS | Education | School choice ‘fuels segregation’ Annotated tags: education.facts School admissions and parental choice are fuelling segregation, says the man in charge of England’s admissions. BBC NEWS | Education | Primary schools ‘have got worse’ Annotated tags: education.facts A narrowing of the curriculum has led to a decrease in the quality of [...]

Rememble, MFL, Newspaper Template, Truancy Fact

Rememble Annotated tags: ict, ict.tools, resources Rememble is a ‘washing line’ for your digital bits and pieces. Thread together texts, photos,videos, sounds, scribbles, scans,notes, tweets… so they’re not drifting in a digital wasteland. The Language Investigator Annotated tags: languages, resources This site is aimed at Primary School teachers who are interested introducinga multilingual dimension into [...]