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This week I’ll be attending the Voice 21 Great Oracy exhibition.

When I run our Big Classroom training, it’s interesting to see which elements find resonance with different teachers.

The left in general – needs to embrace and strengthen the current curriculum, behaviour, instruction agenda.

Just in case you didn’t know these exist, here’s a link to my youtube channel where I’ve recorded the Kitchen Pedagogy Series over the last few years.

As readers of this blog will know, I’m a passionate advocate for developing teaching techniques with precision; I believe in strong routines and clear boundaries for assertive behaviour management; I’m committed to the idea of setting high expectations of…

There’s a lot of important and interesting debate about the ‘forgotten third’ and grading.

It’s an interesting social dynamic that, in any group, there are people who tend to dominate and others who sit back.

Just because we can, doesn’t mean we should.

Based on what I observe from my travels, visiting hundreds of lessons and meeting hundreds of teachers, I find I keep coming back to these three big areas to work on in most settings: Inclusive Teaching – the need to teach all learners all the time.

I’ve been interacting with ChatGPT to help create something that assimilates some of the key ideas about learning that I find particularly helpful.

I asked ChatGPT to make this image with the prompt: Can you produce an illustration suggesting process moving from being weak or done well only in small pockets, then a mass implementation phase where things improve but nuance and subtlety are lost and th…

This post is essentially a newsletter to capture various things I’ve been putting out in recent weeks.

These days there is a lot of discussion about the role of commonly agreed principles and routines in teaching.