5 Design Principles for a more Authentic and Collaborative GCSE Pedagogy A year or so ago myself and a few colleagues began trialling a different approach to structuring and delivering a traditional GCSE […]
I argue that state maintained schools within England be brave, reject GCSE’s and their deformative effect upon learning and adopt the IB MYC as a summative assessment framework which provides […]
In response to the UK Governments announced consultation regarding the purpose and quality of education in England inquiry I was asked to offer my thoughts on the purpose of education […]
In a previous article (ICT enhanced teaching and learning or ‘digital pedagogy‘) I shared my current work, commissioned by UCL IOE on behalf of the Government of Macedonia, concerning ICT, pedagogy and more broadly creativity within […]
At the moment I am undertaking some design and teaching work for UCL IOE on behalf of the Government of Macedonia. I am fortunate to be part of a small […]
The presentation, linked by clicking the image below, outlines diagrammatically approaches that can be taken to support a Learning Led approach to sequence planning. Having helped plan sequences of […]
If a school seeks to develop a Collaborative and Connected Curriculum (see previous articles) where lines of curriculum, pedagogy, assessment, attainment and progress truly converge a unifying structure is required. My contributions […]
I have recently been planning the curriculum model for GCSE History, Edexcel Medicine Through Time, which is built upon the principles of: 1: Pragmatic Rehearsal (getting the learners ready for the […]
Recently I was asked to summarise, in 1 page (argh) my Education and Leadership Philosophy. Well here goes. Learning is a lifelong process of both passive and active engagement with […]
Engineering effective learning experiences: Motivated by a recent chat with the ever stimulating Carl Gombrich (@carlgomb) I wanted to take an earlier article where I discussed a form of Curriculum […]
Collaborative Group Learning 