I found this book to be really informative, and in many ways empowering – it’s especially helpful to me as a relatively new entrant to the job of overseeing the work of Initial Teacher Educators, and it has given me
Cleverlands by Lucy Crehan
I‘m not usually a big fan of international comparisons, or borrowing policy from more successful jurisdictions. This suspicion has been made much more acute by the egregious policy cherry picking carried out by lobbyists, politicians (from all parties) and academy
Michael F.D. Young, Graduate Teachers and the Hero’s Journey
Just over a year ago I started reading books that I thought I wouldn’t agree with. One of those books was E.D. Hirsch’s ‘Cultural Literacy’, and although I didn’t agree with it (as feared), I will be forever grateful that
The ones that got away.
Sometimes, often in the long night, we think back over things we’ve done. After a good day, these are often cinematic valedictions of the brilliance of our achievements, the goal scored, the child saved, the answer to the quiz question
Project Halpin: ‘Cultural Literacy’ (2) – Hirsch, Knowledge and the Learner
This is part of a series of posts that I’ve been writing over a much longer period than I originally planned. The idea came from a lecture given by David Halpin, in which he discussed the need for us to approach
Project Halpin: ‘Cultural Literacy’ (1) – Hirsch and the Reader
This is part of a series of posts that I’ve been writing over a much longer period than I originally planned. The idea came from a lecture given by David Halpin, in which he discussed the need for us to approach
Books I read about the Restoration of Charles II.
Helen on Twitter asked me today if I had any recommended reading for someone new to the Restoration period. It seems like quite a long time since I wrote the book for Hodder, but as many teachers will be
A trip to the Black Country Living Museum
A month ago, we packed the family into our ageing Megan, and travelled to the Black Country to see relatives and visit one of my favourite Museums, the Black Country Museum. Sharing a hotel room with your tweenage family was,
A personal archaeology of skills.
I first became aware of the possibility of being a writer* during my professional legal training. Before then I experienced only moderate success, and limited satisfaction, when I wrote. I struggled to communicate my ideas and lacked confidence that I
Just take the phones off them
Been thinking about this for a long time – years in fact, as teacher, but it’s taken some things happening to us as a family to convince me that smartphones should not be given to children until they’re really old