Why did the Chickenman cross the road?

This is a great new resource for all schools and it is free to use. Have a quick read of my last post 9. Basically you get your students to sign up and register for free by visiting the site here: www.ssatrust.org.uk/globalcitizens (need to be 13 and over) They then simply come up with a [...]

So how do we motivate people to learn? Daniel summed up the basics “If you reward something you get more of that behaviour – laws of behavioural physics!” He then went on to discuss a couple of really interesting examples from research over the last 50 years which you may be familiar with here is [...]

Whether you know her from the Byron review, on television as the host of the tiny tearaways or as a feisty and passionate lady who talks a lot of sense for one thing she has the opportunity to bend the ear of Mr Gove but whether he will listen we will have to wait and [...]

  This was my presentation at the SSAT National Conference. It was a really interesting session, there was a high number of people there and a few people who attended commented that they had come along as it was a controversial topic and they wanted to get some answers. You can see the full presentation [...]

I am sure that you already know all about Prof Sugata Mitra and his hole in the wall project. If you don’t then where have you been? I am not going to try and explain what it is for you as I really wouldn’t be able to do it justice you can read more about [...]

With all the recent changes being made regarding education here is the UK, the recent announcement regarding the future of the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust and the government releasing the white paper during the 2010 National conference, the mood was set to be quite a few interesting days in Birmingham. In her welcoming speech [...]

This was a really interesting session that made me reflect on my own school and where we are on our journey. Erica talked about how schools should be inviting students to break the rules in their learning – letting students know when they can do it and how it will be assessed. She talked about [...]

Here is a very brief blog post following the talk from Nick Gibb today at the SSAT National Conference – apologies if this post is not grammatically correct – it was written live during his speech and the purpose is to share the information with anyone who wants to read it and couldn’t be here. [...]

The man the myth the legend! You can read more about him on Merlin John Online here: http://bit.ly/glGDEU I first encountered John a few years ago when we were fortunate to get him down for some whole school training residential conference – he was superb! He really helped inspire many of our teachers in the [...]

Last week I was privileged to spend some time with John at Microsoft Reading UK where he was discussing the potential role of the UK Innovative schools programme see earlier post here:  http://bit.ly/boDWgd We discussed many things but we particularly focused on the current changes within education and what impact that would make on the [...]