Tag Archives: exams The hosts of insidelearning decide they are not good with calendars and mess up again with dates -our fault. Edutalk live is next week! Never mind, a stimulating conversation ensues about this week’s news items. Schools Direct -changes to teacher education. Links here and here and here. Plus link to Scotland’s review of teacher education…  We can’t help ourselves tonight as the policy environment in England gets us hot under the collar and some ranting is inevitable. Our New Year’s pledge is to find some more inspiring stories of learning and pedagogy. So come on listeners, pitch in and help us out as we think there may be close to…  Tonight we are joined by another positive, enthusiastic teacher, Heather James, as we chat about the week’s education news. Alison Kershaw in the Independent: Tests for trainee teachers to be revamped to raise status of profession: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/tests-for-trainee-teachers-to-be-revamped-to-raise-status-of-profession-8227468.html BBC cover the story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-20083249 Sean Coughlan writes: Exam watchdog ‘unfair’ extra time warning http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-20154356 Peter Walker: Math’s…  Tonight we are delighted to be joined by Advanced Skills Teacher Lisa Ashes who spreads such a positive and energetic message in talking about the use of SOLO taxonomy in her classroom teaching. Lisa has been spreading the word through various networks – the Durham spring starts here. So Gove be warned, there are…  We try a live stream but have not got to grips with the technology yet, so apologies to those who tried to listen and chat but were only receiving one part of the conversation. We think it worth pursuing as it will allow a live interaction, so will keep experimenting. This episode is longer than… |
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