Musings of a pragmatic teacher

The brain, it's functions, structure and how it works is a source of fascination for me. This is due mainly to two things. Firstly as a...

Boy it's been a tough term! New curriculum, new methods of assessment, new Ofsted framework.... Yet still I love teaching. These are som...

In April 2014, whilst in the grips of the reign of the now infamous Education Minister Mr Gove I wrote a blogpost 'Do We Need a Teaching...

Teaching is a profession that is always in the spotlight. Everyone has an opinion about teaching and how it should be done. There are endles...

As a long serving, some may say long suffering teacher, I have seen many educational theories, innovations, new practices and buzz words com...

Reading teaching job bulletins, my Twitter feed, the press, I have noticed a new TLR post has emerged ... Head of Teaching and Learning.  ...

(Not my slippers) As a teacher I spend lots of my time thinking about, researching and planning for ways to improve both the...