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New Numeracy Plans are Flawed
National Numeracy has attacked the new plans by Education Minister, Michael Gove, as flawed and ‘undeliverable’, saying they rely too much on rote learning. The new plans, expected to commence in September 2014 require children to know their times tables by the age of nine.
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London State Schools the Best in the Country
According to a new study published this week, London state schools are now the best in the country. This is a marked difference from data from previous years’ data which suggested that many London state schools were struggling to meet minimum standards.
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Lesson Goals
In the assessments this is a point on which many people fail; either because they don’t provide a goal at all and just launch in to what they are teaching us, or because they say things like ‘I thought we’d look at Charles Darwin’ or ‘Classical Poetry’. While you may think the above are goals, they are not specific enough to class as such. ‘I thought we’d look at how Charles Darwin writes in the final paragraph of his On the Origin of Species and what impact this has on ...’ and ‘Today we are going to look at what it is about Ovid’s Amores that upset Augustus’ are far better goals than the former.
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Get Creative - it’s in all of us, not just the chosen few.
Steve Jobs was know for thinking outside the box. Not only in terms of product innovation but also how he reorganised his office building. Recognising that the most creative ideas came when people were relaxed he repositioned all the places where people would naturally bump into each other so that they were central in the workspace. The coffee shop, cafeteria, mailboxes and even the loos were placed right in the centre of the office building so that people would have to meet in an informal setting, encouraging interaction and creativity.
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A Level and GCSE Results
Pete's blog 28-8-12: A few weeks ago I said that I had changed the way that tutors and students enter qualifications...
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Schools Perpetuate a Culture of Low Expectations
The government looks to have done something good recently in terms of education policy. After saying that there were ‘perverse incentives to over-identify children as having SEN’, the number of children labelled as having special educational needs has fallen by almost 90,000 in just two years, official figures have revealed.
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Mind Mapping
Mind mapping helps to brand information in pupils’ brains according to an article in last weeks’ TES by Simon Porter. And it certainly seems worth a try. Every week I ask my students what features they need to look for in texts and every week it seems like I’m getting blood out of a stone.
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The Drive for O Level Type Exams Continues
More pupils than ever before are taking iGCSEs, an exam which examines at the end of 2 years rather than throughout the year. This backs up Michael Gove’s plan to reintroduce O Level type courses to the UK which also examine only at the end of the 2 year course.
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A Level points system to be scrapped?
A report on the BBC Education website today reports that many educational establishments and most universities would welcome the scrapping of the points based UCAS offer system which has been in place for the last 10 years.
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