#TLAB15 tickets now on sale!
‘Multipliers’ workshop at #TLAB14 Tickets for the Teaching, Learning & Assessment Conference, Berkhamsted, are now on sale! You can book you place by clicking on this link. The price remains at £50...
View ArticleOne million minutes and pointing fingers
No doubt you will have seen Dr Tristram Hunt’s speech last week about independent schools and tax rates. If you have not, I suggest you read it first. This is an invitation to do something radical. In...
View ArticleThe problem of a single story
Robert Peal’s article in the TES on Friday ‘History’s an adventure – don’t cut it short’ left me feeling slightly bemused. In the piece, Peal argues that current history textbooks lack an extended...
View ArticleTLAB – All Sold
I am very pleased to announce that the original ticket allocation for the Teaching, Learning & Assessment Conference, Berkhamsted has now been sold!* There will be around 240 educators at the...
View ArticleScholarship
After a long period of gestation, we have released details of the revamped ‘gifted and talented’ programme. We already have extensive provision for sports, music, drama and academic scholarship...
View Article#TLAB15 Welcome
The text below is taken from the #TLAB15 conference booklet. The Teaching, Learning & Assessment Conference, Berkhmasted takes place on the 21st March. http://www.berkhamstedschool.org/TLAB15...
View ArticleThank You
Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore opens #TLAB15 I want to thank all the speakers, workshop leaders and delegates for making the Teaching, Learning & Assessment Conference, Berkhamsted (#TLAB15) a...
View ArticleWrestling with angels
But my own experience of theory – and Marxism is certainly the case in point – is of wrestling with the angels – a metaphor you can take as literally as you like. Stuart Hall This could be a very long...
View ArticleCPD Review
I took over the CPD programme at Berkhamsted in 2013 and after considering the work at Cramlington Learning Village, I devised a programme that: was role specific; included research bursaries for...
View ArticleDiversity and the independent sector
I was interviewed by the Guardian last week and the outcome can be seen here. There are a few clarifications needed and this is not because the journalist, Hannah Fearn, did not do her job! The first...
View ArticleThe 140 character problem
In a post a few months ago, I discussed the growing issue of ‘silence’ in the education debate on Twitter. People keep their views private (but use Direct Messages to share concerns) for fear of...
View ArticleThe Blind Men and the Elephant – the role of research in the history classroom
It was six men of Indostan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind), That each by observation Might satisfy his mind. The First approached the Elephant,...
View ArticleHow to read a research paper
After Ben Goldacre’s intervention about the need for greater evidence in education, I thought it best to speak to someone who reads a great deal of medical research for a living and knows a bit about...
View ArticleOne approach to adolescence
One of the most enjoyable books I have read this summer is Tony Little’s ‘An Intelligent Person’s Guide To Education’. Covering topics such as headship, character education and vocation in teaching,...
View ArticleLegacies of the British Slave Trade
With results out of the way, the focus now turns to planning lessons. For my Year 9 classes this year, I plan to get them to do some research using the Legacies of the British Slave Trade database....
View ArticleThe St Albans School Forum on Education Saturday 28th May
One of the most pleasing aspects of organising TLAB is hearing about the impact it has had on other educators. Partly inspired by the conference , Michael Smyth in his new role as Assistant Head at St...
View ArticleFrameworks and narratives
In our first history department meeting last week, we discussed the school’s new approach to ‘Building Learning Power’ and how we could create resources to use the language and ideas to structure...
View ArticleThe Next Chapter – event at the University of Brighton
As part of Black History Month, I am taking part in a panel discussion at the University of Brighton on the barriers BME (Black and Minority Ethnic) students and staff in the Higher Education system...
View ArticleThe Next Chapter panel discussion at the University of Brighton
On Friday I was part of the panel at the University of Brighton’s panel discussion ‘The Next Chapter | Our Future in Black and White‘ to discuss the absence of BME academics in HE. When discussing the...
View ArticleArchitects of the Mind – A Blueprint for Education Innovators. Stowe Ed...
It may appear that I am not keen on relaxing over the Christmas holiday. Not only do I move house on the last day of school this term and prepare to start my new post at Nottingham High School in...
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