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What are you going to read today? Do we really need a dedicated day to celebrate reading? Why don’t we have a World Maths Day or a World Writing Day? Where’s World Music Day? Where’s World Cooking Day or World … Continue reading
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Is there life after Christmas? Well there certainly was after the Mayan so-called doomsday,and there will be after this holiday season too. Though it may not start properly for many of us until normal levels of alcohol and blood sugar … Continue reading
I shall assume that your silence gives consent. – Plato. Yesterday’s post highlighted the teaching of phonics and the three teaching unions that are protesting about the new phonics tests. Leaders of three teachers’ unions have written to MPs urging … Continue reading
On and on rage the arguments about “synthetic phonics” and their use in learning to read. Consider this delightful sentence I came across in Pedant’s Corner in the Guardian recently: “These are tools that everyone should have in her/his armamentarium … Continue reading
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“It’s a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.” – Albert Einstein “Einstein clashed with his school authorities and resented his school’s regimen and teaching method. He later wrote that the spirit of learning and creative thought were lost in strict … Continue reading
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Parents in Education. David Cameron has recently commented on the need for Parenting Classes. You don’t send people out on the roads to drive a car without driving lessons, he said, so why do the same with the important job … Continue reading
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Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Google, is surely a man who ought to know about the digital world. This Sunday he wrote the following article for the Observer, by way of responding to the Observer’s campaign to bring ‘coding’ … Continue reading
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So it’s been another week of big headlines about education and literacy, with all manner of uninformed and over-opinionated people wading into the debate. Also, thank goodness, plenty of very sensible and thoughtful folk. On Radio 4′s ‘Any Questions?’ programme … Continue reading
You have to hand it to the new head of Ofsted – he’s certainly making plenty of waves. “Playing fast and loose with international data”, according to some. Ofsted: Literacy progress has stalled, chief inspector says http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-17368311 England is being … Continue reading
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Thought For Today “That’s the job of a teacher – to enable and empower.” So said Patsy Rodenburg, voice coach, speaking on Desert Island Discs this week. The question teachers really need to ask themselves is, to what extent does … Continue reading
