If you are alarmed by the steep decline in reading for pleasure — as am I — you might find yourself asking: what does this mean for society? What are the implications of a nation where reading is one of the last things we turn to in our free time? The 19th century preacher Charles…
Read MoreHaving spent the last seven years teaching internationally, I find myself back in the UK teaching in London. This is the circlest of full-circle moments. I love many things about being back in the place I grew up in and where I honed my classroom practice almost two decades ago. London is diverse, eclectic and…
Read MoreSchools across the world are fast implementing mobile phone restrictions, from outright bans to curbing usage to certain areas or times of the day, all in an effort to encourage students to be more sociable or to prevent cyber bullying or to ensure that lessons can proceed without the unwanted disruptions that mobile phones can…
Read MoreWhat is causing the dire rates of success of GCSE resit? Since 2015, students who do not attain the UK government basic standard of Level 4 in maths and English have to resit these subjects. But stats show that there’s an alarming 79% and 83% failure rate (English and Maths respectively). Jilly Duffy, Head of…
Read MoreThis post is the second in the series of dealing with the Planning, Implementation and Evaluation of interventions. The first can be found here. I’ll be solely concerned with the Implementation phase in this article. Getting started can be the hardest thing. For example, when starting this blog I agonised over trivial matters and procrastinated…
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