Category Archives: News only editions Unfortunately, Alison could not join us tonight, held up by work, so we riff through some topics that catch our eye. The conversation is dominated by the theme of neuromyths and our forlorn hope that learning styles might have been the route to some pedagogical nirvana. A journey we undertook in good faith, but there’s…  Dear friend of the ‘cast Anne Glennie joins Matthew to chew over this weeks news including the “by diverse means” report, more confirmation of summer-born babies bias, some tech nervousness in NEET youngsters and some lower than expected reading levels in Secondary learners! The title will be a blow for the generally popular…  Tonight we have a discussion/dialogue/think or just a rant about the distorting effects of league tables and the need for some more innovation in the system rather than just asking creative teachers to work harder. Its starts off with a story about achievement: Hannah Richardson and Katherine Sellgren BBC story “struggling pupils don’t catch up,…  Image from Oast House Archive In the week Gove gets his Newton and his laws of thermodynamics mixed up, an exam board produces an unanswerable physics A-level question. Not the first exam cock-up of the season. Does this have anything to do with privatised exam boards competing for business? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-13877718 The exam system lights Matthew’s…  Steve reveals a disturbing start to his day and highlights the large proportion of children aged 5-7 who are streamed. Chris Woodhead thinks this is no bad thing but is it? http://www.ioe.ac.uk/newsEvents/53420.html Listen to the interview from Radio 4’s Today programme here. http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9513000/9513240.stm Jay draws upon his own morning rituals and asks whether squeezing an… |
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