Does congratulating yourself give you a shiver of revulsion?
Do you have someone who sees it as their life’s mission to shower you with praise?
Not everyone has either of those - and it’s more important than you might think.
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Does congratulating yourself give you a shiver of revulsion?
Do you have someone who sees it as their life’s mission to shower you with praise?
Not everyone has either of those - and it’s more important than you might think.
peerreviewededucationblog.com/2026/04/20/w...
Fascinating to hear lessons learned by a headteacher from the new Ofsted inspection system.
It would be interesting to see the original version before tracked changes were accepted
Please repost 🙏
Older teachers are at the bottom of the list when waiting to find out their pension details. Please sign this petition to help raise awareness!
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Lower or upper sixth in key stage 5?
How great to see it said that there is no ‘right’ answer for all schools, teachers and pupils but - to quote- “As always, the right answer is not in tribalism, in all of one idea and none of another, but a sophisticated blend of both worlds.”
No evidence - subjective observations
Interesting to read Ofsted inspectors clearly favouring purchased schemes of work over those developed by a school.
Predictions yes. But also pupils viewing ‘how to do questions’ videos where they’d be better revising content, revising using generic sites like Seneca which don’t cover our exact syllabus but sound plausible, study skills YouTubers… surprised this year how much kids want to rely on online not me
I suppose some of my issues are around the nature of endless exam question practice and 'prediction' of questions. The purpose of the assessment is to test transfer - both near transfer and far. Treating it like a horse race means the focus isn't on life long transfer but more like gambling.
I suppose some of my issues are around the nature of endless exam question practice and 'prediction' of questions. The purpose of the assessment is to test transfer - both near transfer and far. Treating it like a horse race means the focus isn't on life long transfer but more like gambling.
TikTokTipsters profiteering on the high stakes gambling nature of GCSE exams is where we are now in 2025.
Read my comments in The Observer.
An extra push for our fascinating survey into how Year 11s have revised for their exams. Early results are truly astounding. If you could share, we would most appreciate it. 🙏
👀We have an ethically approved survey for Year 11s who are revising for GCSEs doing the rounds.👀
If you have a Year 11 or would like to share with your revision class please pass the link on. The early results are already quite staggering.
Retweets 🙏
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Some very good points. It made me reflect on the National Curriculum documents and just how much we’ve moved away from them in search of positivist metrical outcomes.
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▸The fad's purpose is what it does◂
...and not what its authors thought it would do
Educational fads seen through systems theory (AKA cybernetics).
Please share (tough for bloggers recently)
#UKEd #EduSky #EruditePedagogy #Cybernetics
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For my secondary school crew…
👀We have an ethically approved survey for Year 11s who are revising for GCSEs doing the rounds.👀
If you have a Year 11 or would like to share with your revision class please pass the link on. The early results are already quite staggering.
Retweets 🙏
forms.office.com/pages/respon...
If you are trying to elicit the testing effect but then spend extra time every lesson reteaching then you wipe out the gained time. AFL is very good teaching but it’s not RP.
🔥80% of teachers reteach content if pupils don't know the answers during a cycle of retrieval practice.🔥
Why bother using retrieval practice to elicit the testing effect if you then waste the gained time reteaching the answers?
Read more here
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Bridget Phillipson speech to set out need for more male teachers in school.
Will she announce sweeping reform of the bursary system & allow primary, & subjects like drama, to access funds that enable more deprived/career changers to become teachers?
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Primary tests in the future will be replaced by AI, NHS-style, 'screening' which checks for dyslexia, discalcula & other difficulties as part of evaluation of their reading & maths.
Will we still over prep for these screening checks?
Check lexplore.com/en-gb/ for starters.
I’ve taken my children through 16 different GCSE specs so far and every one of them needs a slightly different interpretation and focus. And my experience suggests that how well you understand each one can be a bigger factor in grading than subject understanding.
I have a colleague who teaches 4 subjects across GCSE and A-Level, and told me recently how the word 'evaluate' means something slightly different in each of those contexts...
Let's be brutally honest: each GCSE subject has evolved its own distinct assessment culture. It's not a unified system of assessment; it's a collection of individual ecosystems, each with its own set of rules, expectations, and unspoken 'secrets'. The way examiners interpret mark schemes, weightings, the very language of the questions themselves; all varies significantly between subjects. We're asking students to navigate ten different cultural landscapes, to decipher ten different codes, and then we're surprised when they struggle to do this without specialist teachers and tutors to teach them these codes.
Having to learning ten GCSE exam cultures is inefficient use of curriculum time. Homogenize the individual exam systems and drive more learning of new content.
Whether you are for or against institutions spending money on preparing senior leaders for the risk of Ofsted, there's no escaping it's big business.
🔥🔥 Hot take: are we wrong about revision? This time of year we see the focus shift for Y11 towards revision and there is lots out there talking about effective strategies based on cognitive psychology. However, things may not be as they seem..... 🧵 #UKEd
