Source: Personal Best and the 5 key features of Growth Mindset: making it real

Photo credit – Suffolk Maths http://www.suffolkmaths.co.uk/pages/1growthmindset.htm You will have seen many diagrams by now explaining...

So, after not posting anything for several months, I now plan to start on a series of posts outlining the setting-up, training stages and...

On Thursday 16 July we will be holding a launch party and press event for Personal Best at LA Mare de Carteret High School, Guernsey at 9...

With this in mind I have decided on a slightly different approach to the revision sessions I will be running in Guernsey secondary...

Earlier this month I had the opportunity to spend a morning listening to David Didau talking about literacy. Like all good inset, this...

Hargreaves and Fullan now move on to the final part of their professional capital equation, DC – decisional capital as in PC = F (HC, SC,...

Teaching is complicated. Learners’ needs are multifarious and educational systems and qualifications frameworks are complex and...

When I was working with English departments across Lincolnshire we were regularly asked to conduct departmental reviews. Following time...

Firstly, let’s be very clear from the start, this is not an attack on digital learning. I am as intrigued by gadgets and new bits of...

I have nothing against reading – I am a massive supporter of reading. It can have a very positive impact on many aspects of people’s...

The authors start this chapter by listing the 5 Cs which are required in order for teachers to be able to teach like a pro. These are...

In this article, Tom Bennett presents a strongly worded attack on the notion that creativity is not currently being effectively taught in...

This chapter attacks, with considerable vigour, many of the sacred cows of school improvement. Books with titles like Teach like a...

This chapter extends the dichotomy established in chapter 1 between the business capital view of teaching and the professional capital...

As an Education Development Officer working with secondary schools I am, of course, very interested in this book, subtitled Transforming...

When I was growing up I was taught to look for the explanation of all human qualities, actions and phenomena in the environment in which...

Reading Alison Gopnik’s The Philosophical Baby, which examines what new research into the way children’s minds work and develop tells us...

Alison Gopnik wrote The Philosophical Baby back in 2009 and I think that in it she tells us many things about the development of...

Kelly Gallagher’s 2009 book Readicide is subtitled How schools are killing reading and what you can do about it. This gives a very clear...