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Changing up a game-changer: Teach Like A Champion 2.0 – A (Thorough) Review
They needed to create a ‘common vocabulary’ to describe the elements of good teaching (p. 175)” They needed a kind of playbook, an understanding of what made the best teachers great so that they could...
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Changing up a game-changer: Teach Like A Champion 2.0 – A (Brief) Review
“It shouldn’t take a dozen years of brutal trial and error, suffering, and fatigue” for teachers to solve problems which are ‘endemic’ in schools. At some point all teachers answer “What do you do...
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Moneyball for schools: can we use data like the Oakland A's?
The Oakland A’s were a fairly successful baseball team facing a problem: a budget half that of their top rivals. In Moneyball, Michael Lewis explained their response: exploiting market inefficiencies...
View Article4 ways to use evidence in education – and 15 places to start
Yesterday, I was privileged to be on a panel with Tom Bennett, Margaret Mulholland and Ed Chapman at the London Festival of Education, discussing why and how evidence can be of use in education. Here...
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In praise of Teaching as a Subversive Activity
“You cannot step twice into the same stream” Heraclitus of Ephesus Writing in the late 1960s, the authors of Teaching as a Subversive Activity worked from two assumptions: society’s survival is under...
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In dispraise of Teaching as a Subversive Activity
In many ways, Teaching as a Subversive Activity made me a significantly better teacher. In retrospect though, an insufficiently critical reading, early in my career, led me astray. This post...
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Sir Tim Brighouse: On Checklists
In the foreword for Ticked Off, Sir Tim Brighouse offered his thoughts on checklists: Like the author, I am not a natural fan of checklists. The roots of my dislike probably can be traced to having an...
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What makes checklists transformational?
Two years ago, I would have dismissed the thought of promoting checklists to fellow teachers: I saw the impersonal routine they implied as stifling and in any case, my own organisation was too...
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Ensuring a good lesson: mental simulation
For years I’ve been meaning to write up a simple technique which makes lessons flow. I lacked the words until I read Gary Klein’s brilliant book, Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions. Klein...
View ArticleA reading list: learning, teaching & professional development
On request, this is a list of good reads on learning, teaching, assessment, professional development and organisational culture; I’ve also added a few books not directly related to education I’ve found...
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