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Whole Class Feedback Instead of Thirty Books
I remember sitting at my kitchen table in 2014, surrounded by three different colour-coded highlighters and a stack of essays that felt...
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Feedback Only Works if Something Changes
I was sitting in a middle leadership meeting last Tuesday, listening to a consultant explain how “bespoke, multi-layered diagnostic feedback loops” are...
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Mixing Problem Types Feels Worse and Works Better
I remember sitting in a windowless training room five years ago, staring at a glossy PowerPoint presentation that promised to revolutionise our...
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Building Spacing Into the Scheme of Work
I remember sitting in a windowless professional development suite five years ago, staring at a glossy PowerPoint that promised a revolution in...
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Retrieval Practice as a Five Minute Routine
I remember sitting in a windowless professional development suite back in 2016, watching a consultant in a slim-fit suit explain how retrieval...
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One Question That Tells You Whether to Move on
I remember sitting in a departmental meeting ten years ago, staring at a glossy, twenty-page training manual that promised a revolution in...
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Checking Thirty Pupils, Not Three
I was sitting in a CPD session last Tuesday—one of those mandatory ones where the presenter speaks in a sort of aggressive,...
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Cold Calling Without Humiliation
I remember sitting in a middle leadership training session back in 2014, watching a consultant in a crisp suit explain how cold...
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Wait Time Changes the Answers You Get
I remember sitting in a professional development session back in 2014, watching a consultant in a crisp suit explain how “high-order scaffolding”...
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Scaffolds That Get Taken Away
I’ve sat through enough CPD sessions on “gradual release of responsibility” to know that most of the advice out there is pure...
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