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It’s all in the question
Teachers should ask a lot of questions. Questions allow us to ascertain current understanding and to push students to the next level. As such they are most effective when they involve as many students as possible.
The WHY of learning environments
What supermarkets, London 2012, Obama, The Great British Bake Off, routine and the colour yellow tell us about learning environments.
The Intelligence Wager
Much has been discussed concerning whether students can become more intelligent, i.e. whether they can increase their capacity to learn, as well just simply learn new things. I firmly believe that they can but regardless of the answer to this question the most important things is that we act as if they can and Pascal’s wager provides a good analogy as to why.
What motivates school staff? A lesson from Google
Empowering and encouraging staff to formulate their own ideas and to actually implement them will serve as the highest form of motivation
Schools without a HOW
When schools do not have a ‘how’ they have a vacuum and this is very dangerous.
Motivating Staff: Lessons from a head-hunter
An engaging talk by successful headhunters, from Moloney Search, at the recent Prince’s Trust Institute conference, has highlighted what is necessary to motivate staff in the school context.
Monzo: Turned their weakness into their USP
Monzo, like Wagamama, have turned their weakness into their ‘thing’ and we all love
Education, cycling and marginal gains
To raise educational achievement you should identify all the contributing factors and continually seek to improve each one little by little
Is your learning falling off the edges?
A spiral model of learning will stop new learning from dropping off the edges as it will continually develop and reinforce the links between current and new understanding