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  • A lesson plan is not a planned lesson

    A lesson plan is not a planned lesson

    This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in November 2017.  You can read the original version on the SecEd website here.   You can access the full archive of my columns for SecEd here.  This article is about planned lessons not lesson plans. I do not advocate spending your evenings and weekends writing detailed pro… Read more

  • The learning process: Part 10

    The learning process: Part 10

    This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in November 2017.  You can read the original version on the SecEd website here.   You can access the full archive of my columns for SecEd here. This is the final instalment in a 10-part series.  Catch up with the series so far.  I started this 10-part series by asking… Read more

  • The learning process: Part 9

    The learning process: Part 9

    This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in November 2017.  You can read the original version on the SecEd website here.   You can access the full archive of my columns for SecEd here.  This is part nine of a 10-part series.  Catch up with the series so far. As we have discovering in this series,… Read more

  • The learning process: Part 8

    The learning process: Part 8

    This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in November 2017.  You can read the original version on the SecEd website here.   You can access the full archive of my columns for SecEd here.  This is part eight of a 10-part series.  Catch up with the series so far. The process of learning is the interaction… Read more

  • The learning process: Part 7

    The learning process: Part 7

    This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in September 2017.  You can read the original version on the SecEd website here.   You can access the full archive of my columns for SecEd here.  This is part seven of a 10-part series.  Catch up with the series so far. The process of learning is the interaction… Read more

  • The learning process: Part 6

    The learning process: Part 6

    This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in September 2017.  You can read the original version on the SecEd website here.   You can access the full archive of my columns for SecEd here.  This is part six of a 10-part series.  Catch up with the series so far. Last time I argued that, if we… Read more

  • The learning process: Part 5

    The learning process: Part 5

    This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in September 2017.  You can read the original version on the SecEd website here.   You can access the full archive of my columns for SecEd here.  This is part five of a 10-part series.  Catch up with the series so far. If I asked you to calculate 57… Read more

  • The learning process: Part 4

    The learning process: Part 4

    This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in September 2017.  You can read the original version on the SecEd website here.   You can access the full archive of my columns for SecEd here.  This is part four of a 10-part series.  Catch up with the series so far. In this series of articles I’m exploring… Read more

  • The learning process: Part 3

    This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in September 2017.  You can read the original version on the SecEd website here.   You can access the full archive of my columns for SecEd here.  This is part three of a 10-part series.  Read the first part  and the second part.  Last time, I argued that the… Read more

  • The learning process: Part 2

    This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in September 2017.  You can read the original version on the SecEd website here.   You can access the full archive of my columns for SecEd here.  This is part two of a 10-part series.  Read the first part here.  In the first part of this series on… Read more

  • The learning process: Part 1

    The learning process: Part 1

    This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in September 2017.  You can read the original version on the SecEd website here.   You can access the full archive of my columns for SecEd here.  This is part one of a 10-part series.   What is learning? It’s a simple question, isn’t it? And surely, as… Read more

  • Why I wrote Making Key Stage 3 Count

    Why I wrote Making Key Stage 3 Count

    I started writing the first edition of my book, Making Key Stage 3 Count, in the summer of 2015 – having, over the previous decade, first as a teacher then as a school leader, become increasingly convinced that pupils in Years 7, 8 and 9 got a rough deal from our education system.  But life… Read more

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