Category Archives: curriculum

This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in March 2018.  You can read the original version on the SecEd website here.   You can access the full archive of my columns for SecEd here.  When I spoke at SecEd’s Seventh National Pupil Premium and Ofsted Conference last year, I explained that one in four childrenContinue reading “Closing the vocabulary gap”

This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in January 2018.  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 fourth article in a 5-Part series. Read Part One, Part Two, Part Three and Part Four here.  If our schoolsContinue reading “Leadership and staff retention (Part 5)”

This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in January 2018.  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 fourth article in a 5-Part series. Read Part One, Part Two, and Part Three here.  So far in this five-partContinue reading “Leadership and staff retention (Part 4)”

This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in January 2018.  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 third article in a 5-Part series. Read Part One and Part Two here.  So far in this five-part series,Continue reading “Leadership and staff retention (Part 3)”

This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in January 2018.  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 second article in a 5-Part series. Read Part One here.  In part one of this series, I summarisedContinue reading “Leadership and staff retention (Part 2)”

This article was written for SecEd magazine and first published in January 2018.  You can read the original version on the SecEd website here.   You can access the full archive of my columns for SecEd here. “The strength of a nation’s economy and the vitality of its society depend on the quality of its schools.” So beginsContinue reading “Leadership and staff retention (Part 1)”

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.  To help pupils learn, we need to provide them with plentiful opportunities to practise, receive feedback, reflect, and then act uponContinue reading “The open loop”

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 proContinue reading “A lesson plan is not a planned lesson”