Pessimistic. I have never known schools to be so short of money. It’s affecting everything

Have you seen Steplab. If yes what did you think of it?

A great episode. Most interesting that you never mentioned instructional coaching, as a solution to all the problems of the everyone in the hall model of CPD. I feel coaching is great in theory particularly the emphasis on rehearsal, but very difficult to put into practice what do you think?

A really well argued piece. Bravo!!

On this logic as the son of a German Jewish refugee whose family came to the UK in 1938 I am not British

A Yr 10 trip to go paint balling led to a myth going around the school that I had been a member of the SAS which a large number of students believed and it lasted for years. My department encouraged it, so that students did not even believe my denials!

I remember CASE and I remember the challenge of implementing it. I cannot remember its theoretical basis which I am guessing has been debunked or everybody would still be teaching it although it was via CASE that I first heard of Metacognition

The gist of Alex's opening to this fine episode of a typically thought-provoking and - very importantly in this week of all weeks - non-despairing discussion.

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I think performance related pay has a lot to answer for. It is obviously unfair to base pay progression on student results it seems fairer to base it on performance management targets achieved, but for that you have to set new development targets every year which leads to way too many initiatives

Completely agree with this.

People think that teaching is a horrible career and they have that perception, not from the media, but from teachers.

Teaching is a wonderful profession. Hard, yes, but genuinely a great career option more people should choose.

We are often our own worst enemy.

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Reading The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Teachers which led me to Teach Like a Champion and Why Don’t Students Like School? Those three books utterly changed my understanding of what is the most effective teaching and why is it the most effective.

Managing student attention and the art of effective questioning are broad enough to be addressed with all staff by explicit modeling followed by rehearsal. In my opinion what comes in between these two , the explicit teaching of knowledge, is better addressed in departments