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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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Much Better Lessons from New Tutors
Pete's blog 14-8-12: Unfortunately Laura’s away this week...
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Slow Down Introduction of New O Levels or Say Goodbye to World Class
Exam boards are warning Michael Gove that he must slow down his ‘extremely ambitious’ timetable for the reintroduction of the new O Level. If he does not they forecast that he risks repeating previous testing disasters. Senior figures of the exam boards told the TES that if he continues apace he will scupper any ambition to make the new exams truly ‘world class’.
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Big Businesses Kick School Teaching Where It Hurts
Google has waded in to the debate on ICT teaching, just as the London Evening Standard did on Literacy. Both have felt it necessary to intervene in a curriculum that isn’t providing what the industries say they need.
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University of Bedfordshire criticised over PhD appeal.
The university standards watchdog has severely criticised the University of Bedfordshire after a PhD which was failed by an external examiner was awarded a pass, on appeal, by the university panel.
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Special Schools to Create a Newly Skilled Workforce
Fifteen new schools which are specifically designed to ready schoolchildren for the workplace are to be set up in England. For pupils aged 14 and over, the schools combine academic teaching with work based training. Pupils do a 9-5 day in order to prepare them for the work place.
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