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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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Suddenly Programming is Easy
Pete's blog 21-8-12: In the end I asked Harriet to cover for Laura for the end of last week...
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Are the best teachers those with a teaching qualification?
A report on the BBC Education website yesterday (01/08/2012) raises the concerns of those teachers with QTS (Qualified Teacher Status) over the relaxation of rules regarding the hiring by academies of experts rather than teachers.
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SOLO Taxonomy - can private tutors use such a system?
SOLO is a way of classifying understanding in a student. As a way of teaching it also allows students to classify their own level of understanding. In a planned SOLO lesson students select their own start level and then move on when they have classified their own understanding as ready to go progress to the next level.
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Fail to Prepare, Prepare to Fail
While the summer is here and it’s tutoring’s quiet season, why not get ahead ready for the rush in August and September? It’s always obvious if you don’t know the curriculum very well, or the board and it’s far more nerve wracking at a trial lesson if you are unsure of how the student will be assessed.
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Rote Learning for Maths - Back to the Old Days
In an article in this week’s TES helen Ward bemoans the return to rote learning. By 2014, she states, the proposed new curriculum will expect that all 9 year olds can do their 12 times tables.
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