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What works... for this class: Teacher judgement and my Year 7s
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24/02/2013
By Loic Menzies - LKMco Director
Let me tell you a story:
A few years ago I had a challenging Year 7 form group. They were fourth out of five sets and were full of clashing personalities: the boisterous-already-hormonal big kids, the small-and-vulnerable childish ones and from every conceivable culture, special need and so on. Every day, issues came up in their various classes...
It shouldn't be one or the other: why wellbeing *and* academic success should be considered together
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20/02/2013
by Anna Trethewey, LKMco Senior Associate
During a recent Nesta event, Yvonne Roberts, stated that we aren’t focusing on what’s ‘important’ in education and that primarily, education should exist to ‘make young people feel good about themselves’. As author of a report for The Young Foundation entitled ‘Grit: The Skills for Success and How They Are Grown’, what she...
If Ofqual Can Decide Grade Boundaries, What Does That Mean For Teachers?
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14/02/2013
Written by Laura McInerney, Policy Development Partner
As people fight over yesterday’s court ruling on the GCSE Fiasco, no-one has yet answered a question I posed in September. How on earth is a teacher supposed to know what a C grade answer looks like?
The court judgement confirms that Ofqual has the absolute right to ensure comparable outcomes of GCSE scores between cohorts...
Today's presentation of the Ofsted Annual Report from Sir Michael Wilshaw to the Education Select Committee
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13/02/2013
This morning Wilshaw presented the Osfted Annual Report to the Education Select Committee and below you can find live tweets from the event.
There were four recurring areas:
1. Wilshaw, like The Academies Commission, is particularly keen on school to school collaboration to improve standards, especially for schools in disadvantaged areas. Ofsted are considering...
