Tuesday, 23 December 2014

Maturity and the case of graded lesson observations - can the FE sector handle the truth!

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Last Friday saw the TES publish an article on graded lesson observations within the further education sector where Lorna Fitzjohn, OfSTED...
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Sunday, 14 December 2014

Research Leads Conference and Evidence-Based Practice - How to avoid re-inventing the wheel

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On Saturday I had the privilege of attending ResearchED's Research Leads one-day conference.  It was an incredible day full of intellect...
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Tuesday, 9 December 2014

Dangerous Half Truths and Total Nonsense - Evidence Based Practice and two avoidable mistakes

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A few weeks ago I wrote about how difficult it is to learn from others using casual benchmarking and the implications this had for leadershi...
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Monday, 1 December 2014

What Works? Evidence for decision-makers - it's not quite that simple.

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This week saw the publication of the What Works Network's What Works? Evidence for Decision-Makers report which in the context of educa...
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Tuesday, 25 November 2014

How past experience can get in the way of good teaching and learning.

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This post has been inspired by Oliver Burkeman's recent column   ' Don't get caught in the monkey trap' .  In this column, B...
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Tuesday, 18 November 2014

Further Cuts in the FE budget and Creating a Learning Society - Does it make any economic sense?

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This week has seen concern expressed by the Association of College s about the FE sector having to find further budget cuts, with reports t...
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Tuesday, 11 November 2014

'What Makes Great Teaching' - is it time for a critical re-appraisal

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Over the last two weeks we have seen both the publication of the Sutton Trust's report on "What Makes Great Teaching" and the ...
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