Lance Finn
@lancefinn.bsky.social
Education, Sport, Psychology Geek
Head of Teaching and Learning
#FE #loveFE
Head of Teaching and Learning
#FE #loveFE
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In our 2nd blog on our Pupil Insights service, Dr Hayes discusses the value of using pre-validated scientific measures to assess pupils’ thoughts, feelings & behaviours. And how Pupil Insights embodies an in-depth data-driven approach for supporting schools. researchschool.org.uk/greenshaw/ne...
Pupil Insights: skip the guesswork and measure what matters.
Dr Hayes covers the value of using pre-validated scientific measures to assess pupils’ thoughts, feelings & behaviours.
researchschool.org.uk
November 21, 2025 at 2:29 PM
In our 2nd blog on our Pupil Insights service, Dr Hayes discusses the value of using pre-validated scientific measures to assess pupils’ thoughts, feelings & behaviours. And how Pupil Insights embodies an in-depth data-driven approach for supporting schools. researchschool.org.uk/greenshaw/ne...
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*NEW* Parental Guide to Metacognition
I've created a 6 page guide, specifically for parents/carers, all around the importance of metacognition, alongside almost a dozen approaches that can be incorporated at home (with examples).
Please do share and tag - free to use (please just credit my work).
I've created a 6 page guide, specifically for parents/carers, all around the importance of metacognition, alongside almost a dozen approaches that can be incorporated at home (with examples).
Please do share and tag - free to use (please just credit my work).
www.mrmetacognition.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:28 PM
*NEW* Parental Guide to Metacognition
I've created a 6 page guide, specifically for parents/carers, all around the importance of metacognition, alongside almost a dozen approaches that can be incorporated at home (with examples).
Please do share and tag - free to use (please just credit my work).
I've created a 6 page guide, specifically for parents/carers, all around the importance of metacognition, alongside almost a dozen approaches that can be incorporated at home (with examples).
Please do share and tag - free to use (please just credit my work).
Or we could fund colleges properly and fill shortages with skilled teachers??
🧑🏫 Skilled migrants should train and mentor domestic workers in places like colleges to fill shortages and quell fears about immigration, a think tank has said
feweek.co.uk/skilled-migr...
feweek.co.uk/skilled-migr...
Colleges should use skilled foreign workers to fill shortages
Think tank suggests new ‘work and teach’ system to link overseas workers to skills policy
feweek.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Or we could fund colleges properly and fill shortages with skilled teachers??
This is a great blog and all of it applies to ‘teacher learning’ if not more. Teachers are even more time poor than students. Feedback is often passed down by observer with no check for understanding or surfacing of mental models. Finally, how do we create conditions for teachers to act on feedback?
How do you ensure learners engage with feedback?
"Ensuring students engage with feedback is vital. A lack of feedback engagement can prevent learners from making progress and can potentially lead to repeated mistakes..."
✍️ NEW blog by Kate Jones
Read more here: buff.ly/UTJvgaV
#EduBlogShare
"Ensuring students engage with feedback is vital. A lack of feedback engagement can prevent learners from making progress and can potentially lead to repeated mistakes..."
✍️ NEW blog by Kate Jones
Read more here: buff.ly/UTJvgaV
#EduBlogShare
How to ensure learners engage with feedback - Evidence Based Education
Ensuring students engage with feedback is vital. A lack of feedback engagement can prevent learners from making progress and can potentially lead to repeated mistakes. If students don’t act on the…
buff.ly
October 19, 2025 at 10:29 AM
This is a great blog and all of it applies to ‘teacher learning’ if not more. Teachers are even more time poor than students. Feedback is often passed down by observer with no check for understanding or surfacing of mental models. Finally, how do we create conditions for teachers to act on feedback?
📚 New blog
Molly Devlin and Vickee Twort (@arkschools.bsky.social) share four proven ways to build strong early years attendance — from building family relationships to whole-school strategies.
🔗 Read: https://eef.li/4NBNkU
For more support, join this webinar: ow.ly/bLJr50X7Kcp
Molly Devlin and Vickee Twort (@arkschools.bsky.social) share four proven ways to build strong early years attendance — from building family relationships to whole-school strategies.
🔗 Read: https://eef.li/4NBNkU
For more support, join this webinar: ow.ly/bLJr50X7Kcp
October 11, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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I’ve created snappy checklists for the following-
✅ Behaviour for Learning
✅ Inclusive Teaching
✅ Accessible Content
✅ CPD Engagement
✅ Literacy Boost
✅ Teacher Wellbeing
✅ Equity in the Classroom
✅ TA Empowerment
✅ Leadership for Learning
✅ Professional Conversations
And more…!
✅ Behaviour for Learning
✅ Inclusive Teaching
✅ Accessible Content
✅ CPD Engagement
✅ Literacy Boost
✅ Teacher Wellbeing
✅ Equity in the Classroom
✅ TA Empowerment
✅ Leadership for Learning
✅ Professional Conversations
And more…!
September 6, 2025 at 8:05 AM
I’ve created snappy checklists for the following-
✅ Behaviour for Learning
✅ Inclusive Teaching
✅ Accessible Content
✅ CPD Engagement
✅ Literacy Boost
✅ Teacher Wellbeing
✅ Equity in the Classroom
✅ TA Empowerment
✅ Leadership for Learning
✅ Professional Conversations
And more…!
✅ Behaviour for Learning
✅ Inclusive Teaching
✅ Accessible Content
✅ CPD Engagement
✅ Literacy Boost
✅ Teacher Wellbeing
✅ Equity in the Classroom
✅ TA Empowerment
✅ Leadership for Learning
✅ Professional Conversations
And more…!
What a complete mess we are in, and so unnecessary. Hoping good sense comes out of the CAR
'Other options will in many cases be sub-optimal workarounds'
James Kewin from the Sixth Form Colleges Association on the implications of the ban on AGQs
feweek.co.uk/scrapping-ag...
James Kewin from the Sixth Form Colleges Association on the implications of the ban on AGQs
feweek.co.uk/scrapping-ag...
August 30, 2025 at 5:44 AM
What a complete mess we are in, and so unnecessary. Hoping good sense comes out of the CAR
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New review of meta-analyses on the effect of S-T relationships shows large sig relations with 8 clusters of S outcomes: acad ach, acad emotions, student behavior, beh problems, exec funct, motiv, school belonging and engagement, & well-being. psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...
August 29, 2025 at 12:26 AM
New review of meta-analyses on the effect of S-T relationships shows large sig relations with 8 clusters of S outcomes: acad ach, acad emotions, student behavior, beh problems, exec funct, motiv, school belonging and engagement, & well-being. psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...
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ASCL FE Advisory Board member, Principal and CEO @darrenhankey.bsky.social writes in Leader on the challenges colleges face trying to deliver qualifications to young people under the current financial constraints of a severely neglected sector: (member log in required): ow.ly/oWCx50WlHhB!
August 8, 2025 at 9:03 AM
ASCL FE Advisory Board member, Principal and CEO @darrenhankey.bsky.social writes in Leader on the challenges colleges face trying to deliver qualifications to young people under the current financial constraints of a severely neglected sector: (member log in required): ow.ly/oWCx50WlHhB!
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Engagement in the Classroom
'Engagement' is a bit of a buzzword in education.
What is it really? How do you see it in the classroom?
theeffortfuleducator.com/2018/03/02/e...
'Engagement' is a bit of a buzzword in education.
What is it really? How do you see it in the classroom?
theeffortfuleducator.com/2018/03/02/e...
Engagement in the Classroom - The Effortful Educator
What does engagement look like in the classroom?
theeffortfuleducator.com
July 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Engagement in the Classroom
'Engagement' is a bit of a buzzword in education.
What is it really? How do you see it in the classroom?
theeffortfuleducator.com/2018/03/02/e...
'Engagement' is a bit of a buzzword in education.
What is it really? How do you see it in the classroom?
theeffortfuleducator.com/2018/03/02/e...
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An interesting report out today by City & Guilds. A gentle reminder:
-Investment in 16-18 education is currently ~10% less in real-terms vs 2010.
-For adult education the figure is ~40%
-Employer investment in skills is at a 20-year low.
www.cityandguilds.com/news/july-20...
-Investment in 16-18 education is currently ~10% less in real-terms vs 2010.
-For adult education the figure is ~40%
-Employer investment in skills is at a 20-year low.
www.cityandguilds.com/news/july-20...
Foundations for the future - News
A new report from City & Guilds reveals that critical skills shortages in the construction sector are putting the Government’s pledge to build 1.5 million new homes at serious risk.
www.cityandguilds.com
July 3, 2025 at 12:21 PM
An interesting report out today by City & Guilds. A gentle reminder:
-Investment in 16-18 education is currently ~10% less in real-terms vs 2010.
-For adult education the figure is ~40%
-Employer investment in skills is at a 20-year low.
www.cityandguilds.com/news/july-20...
-Investment in 16-18 education is currently ~10% less in real-terms vs 2010.
-For adult education the figure is ~40%
-Employer investment in skills is at a 20-year low.
www.cityandguilds.com/news/july-20...
“If we asked teachers to build a rocket from scratch, we’d expect them to need time, scaffolding and plenty of support. Yet teaching itself is a complex, high-stakes task, and we often expect people to just “pick it up” during CPD sessions or one-off briefings”
Hey #Edusky
Why are teachers so hard to develop?
I outline three of the key reasons and offer some solutions.
If you have received bad CPD or find it frustrating when staff revert back to old habits, then share this post to spread the word 🙏 adam-robbins.com/2025/06/24/w...
Why are teachers so hard to develop?
I outline three of the key reasons and offer some solutions.
If you have received bad CPD or find it frustrating when staff revert back to old habits, then share this post to spread the word 🙏 adam-robbins.com/2025/06/24/w...
Why Is Improving Teaching So Difficult — and What Can We Do About It?
“Every teacher needs to improve, not because they are not good enough, but because they can be even better.” Dylan Wiliam’s quote is now ubiquitous in teacher development circles and rightly so. Th…
adam-robbins.com
June 29, 2025 at 7:24 AM
“If we asked teachers to build a rocket from scratch, we’d expect them to need time, scaffolding and plenty of support. Yet teaching itself is a complex, high-stakes task, and we often expect people to just “pick it up” during CPD sessions or one-off briefings”
@vivienneporritt.bsky.social Get well soon
April 18, 2025 at 9:14 PM
@vivienneporritt.bsky.social Get well soon
We have been eagerly awaiting waiting this blog since visiting Greenshaw and being blown away by their Graduated response. It didn’t disappoint…
Part I of a new series of blogs looking at how we’re putting inclusion at the very heart of our school.
This post describes the overall structure.
researchschool.org.uk/greenshaw/ne...
This post describes the overall structure.
researchschool.org.uk/greenshaw/ne...
Our Graduated Response: A whole school approach
Phil Stock talks through moving towards a whole school model of how to support pupils with different levels of need.
researchschool.org.uk
March 22, 2025 at 9:03 AM
We have been eagerly awaiting waiting this blog since visiting Greenshaw and being blown away by their Graduated response. It didn’t disappoint…
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"Far from sorting out vocational education, the T-level saga has turned into the latest illustration of a longstanding problem, namely the poor treatment of colleges by the educational powers that be": www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
T-levels are a disaster – and young people are suffering because ministers won’t admit it | Susanna Rustin
They were supposed to boost vocational learning, but they’re not popular with students and the dropout rate is high. Time for a dose of realism, says Guardian journalist Susanna Rustin
www.theguardian.com
March 17, 2025 at 5:14 PM
"Far from sorting out vocational education, the T-level saga has turned into the latest illustration of a longstanding problem, namely the poor treatment of colleges by the educational powers that be": www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I hope not. The direction of travel is starting to look very familiar and very disappointing
Education secretary Bridget Phillipson is to call on headteachers to ‘catch up fast’ on improving pupil attendance when she addresses the @ascl-uk.bsky.social conference later today #ASCL2025
Phillipson: Schools need ‘old-fashioned graft’ to stop absence ‘damage’
The education secretary will also use her speech at ASCL’s annual conference to say she believes some schools are not doing enough to tackle attendance issues
www.tes.com
March 14, 2025 at 6:53 AM
I hope not. The direction of travel is starting to look very familiar and very disappointing
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💼 'It’s driven by low pay, high workload and competition'
⬇️ The staffing crisis is blighting FE colleges, and government solutions are falling short.
FE Week investigates.
feweek.co.uk/fe-college-t...
⬇️ The staffing crisis is blighting FE colleges, and government solutions are falling short.
FE Week investigates.
feweek.co.uk/fe-college-t...
feweek.co.uk
March 3, 2025 at 5:57 AM
💼 'It’s driven by low pay, high workload and competition'
⬇️ The staffing crisis is blighting FE colleges, and government solutions are falling short.
FE Week investigates.
feweek.co.uk/fe-college-t...
⬇️ The staffing crisis is blighting FE colleges, and government solutions are falling short.
FE Week investigates.
feweek.co.uk/fe-college-t...
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Link wasn't working annoyingly! Here it is:
www.youtube.com/live/Y87zYYx...
www.youtube.com/live/Y87zYYx...
March 2, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Link wasn't working annoyingly! Here it is:
www.youtube.com/live/Y87zYYx...
www.youtube.com/live/Y87zYYx...
Schools have sometimes historically become the institutions recognised by some families that only get in touch at point of crisis; these positive communication tools enale us to rewrite the narrative
January 24, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Schools have sometimes historically become the institutions recognised by some families that only get in touch at point of crisis; these positive communication tools enale us to rewrite the narrative
@samgibbs.bsky.social I really enjoyed this article, it would be good to see / discuss a concrete example if at all possible
Delighted to be cited in this valuable article.
@collegeofteaching.bsky.social
@samgibbs.bsky.social
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@collegeofteaching.bsky.social
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Moving towards the formative assessment of CPD : My College
SAM GIBBS, Trust Lead for Curriculum & Development, GMET NIKKI SULLIVAN, Deputy Headteacher, Beckfoot School In this article, we consider why the summative assessment of teaching and professional lear...
my.chartered.college
January 18, 2025 at 7:46 PM
@samgibbs.bsky.social I really enjoyed this article, it would be good to see / discuss a concrete example if at all possible
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*** NEW POST ***
Should lesson observations be a controversial topic? @greeborunner.bsky.social reflects on their purpose and their limitations.
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Should lesson observations be a controversial topic? @greeborunner.bsky.social reflects on their purpose and their limitations.
wp.me/p7mhqT-O5
Slaying a Beast
Slaying the Observation Beast Observations are a topic which provokes strong feelings in teachers. Many of us went through years of high stakes observation where a single lesson could be used to de…
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January 12, 2025 at 9:51 AM
*** NEW POST ***
Should lesson observations be a controversial topic? @greeborunner.bsky.social reflects on their purpose and their limitations.
wp.me/p7mhqT-O5
Should lesson observations be a controversial topic? @greeborunner.bsky.social reflects on their purpose and their limitations.
wp.me/p7mhqT-O5
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“Expecting colleges to do more with the same money is simply unsustainable and limits the support they can give.” - David Hughes, AoC Chief Executive.
Read more:
www.aoc.co.uk/news-campaig...
Read more:
www.aoc.co.uk/news-campaig...
January 9, 2025 at 9:18 AM
“Expecting colleges to do more with the same money is simply unsustainable and limits the support they can give.” - David Hughes, AoC Chief Executive.
Read more:
www.aoc.co.uk/news-campaig...
Read more:
www.aoc.co.uk/news-campaig...
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**NEW Episode**
Dr Aimee Quickfall @DrAimeeQuicks is a researcher and ITT lead.
Here, Aimee answers perhaps the most important Q in teaching right now:
Why Young Mothers Are Leaving Teaching (and what to do about it)
Kindly repost? An important episode.
open.spotify.com/episode/3vyY...
Dr Aimee Quickfall @DrAimeeQuicks is a researcher and ITT lead.
Here, Aimee answers perhaps the most important Q in teaching right now:
Why Young Mothers Are Leaving Teaching (and what to do about it)
Kindly repost? An important episode.
open.spotify.com/episode/3vyY...
Why Young Mothers Are Leaving Teaching (and what to do about it) - Dr Aimee Quickfall
The (Un)official Teacher's Manual · Episode
open.spotify.com
November 24, 2024 at 9:44 AM
**NEW Episode**
Dr Aimee Quickfall @DrAimeeQuicks is a researcher and ITT lead.
Here, Aimee answers perhaps the most important Q in teaching right now:
Why Young Mothers Are Leaving Teaching (and what to do about it)
Kindly repost? An important episode.
open.spotify.com/episode/3vyY...
Dr Aimee Quickfall @DrAimeeQuicks is a researcher and ITT lead.
Here, Aimee answers perhaps the most important Q in teaching right now:
Why Young Mothers Are Leaving Teaching (and what to do about it)
Kindly repost? An important episode.
open.spotify.com/episode/3vyY...
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A superbly, clear, analytical, and characteristically constructive submission to the #CurriculumandAssessment review from m'colls @ascl-uk.bsky.social. A particular hat-tip to @tommiddlehurst.bsky.social.
We really have to do something about #TheForgottenThird: www.ascl.org.uk/News/Our-new...
We really have to do something about #TheForgottenThird: www.ascl.org.uk/News/Our-new...
November 22, 2024 at 5:05 PM
A superbly, clear, analytical, and characteristically constructive submission to the #CurriculumandAssessment review from m'colls @ascl-uk.bsky.social. A particular hat-tip to @tommiddlehurst.bsky.social.
We really have to do something about #TheForgottenThird: www.ascl.org.uk/News/Our-new...
We really have to do something about #TheForgottenThird: www.ascl.org.uk/News/Our-new...
@furtheredagogy.bsky.social Hey Dan, hope you’re well. Have you come across technical definitions for ‘immersive learning technologies’ and every derivative of, and empirical evidence to support the money being pumped into it??
November 21, 2024 at 7:59 PM
@furtheredagogy.bsky.social Hey Dan, hope you’re well. Have you come across technical definitions for ‘immersive learning technologies’ and every derivative of, and empirical evidence to support the money being pumped into it??