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Why do (some) Teachers on Twitter seem so unwilling to learn?

On a warm Saturday afternoon, a few years ago, I was working in a school (it needs to remain nameless as it would be easy to attribute names to places, and I’ve no desire to name and shame anyone in this piece). Anyway, I was facilitating a student-to-staff training session. It was quite a well-known school, not previously known for progressive pedagogy, but here were an entire cohort of teachers being respectfully asked to allow students to co-design lessons, hold regular conversations about what great learning looked like, and remember the need for engaging lessons. The teachers took all of …

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Teachers Are Doing It For Themselves

An important report, ‘A Rich Seam’, written by Michael Fullan and Maria Langworthy, was published earlier this year. It signals the potential for a long-awaited decoupling of research and political pressure. It suggests that teachers as a profession are now starting to drive the direction of educational research based on what works in the classroom, rather than what plays well in the opinion polls. Meanwhile, in England, the government’s schools inspections agency (OFSTED) sought to re-assert its independence last week, when its Chief Inspector – accused by government advisers as trapped in 1960’s ‘progressive’ teaching methods – argued that insisting …

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