Posted in Research, Uncategorized on Oct 16th, 2007 3 Comments »
I’ve been putting up some additional links to provide easy access to a range of educational research resources.
One of these resources is Teacher’s TV which frm what I can see in Scotland is a most under-rated and under-used facility. I recently came across this interview with Tim Brighouse who remains one of the most influential figures in [...]
Posted in Assessment, Differentiation, Learning and teaching, Research on Mar 26th, 2007 8 Comments »
I had an interesting conversation with a teacher today about there being little need to differentiate in classes which have been set (put into ability groupings for certain subjects e.g. maths, english)
Such an assertion must be based upon the premise that all pupils are placed (through accurate assessment) in the appropriate set and that the class [...]
Posted in Early Intervention, Early Years, Partnerships, Research on Jan 18th, 2007 No Comments »
I met Ian McGowan today who is one of the Directors of INPP in Scotland.
I was interested to find out more about this programme which I’d heard can have positive outcomes for children with Developmental, Specific Learning and Behavioural Difficulties.
I hope to invite Ian to Haddington to speak to him with some colleagues before we make [...]
Posted in Learning and teaching, Management, Research, Self-evaluation on Nov 15th, 2006 1 Comment »
I was invited to the Haddington Cluster to speak about our Student Evaluation of Learning System (SELS) . Watch a flash presentation on SELS here or the quickstart manual here
If you have a login and password you could access the Knox Academy questionnaire here at Knox Academy survey - on the other hand - if you don’t you [...]
Posted in Leadership, Research on Sep 23rd, 2005 No Comments »
9.15pm Kentish Hills Conference Centre, Milton Keynes. Arrived via Luton Airport at 3.30pm Managed to get to the final afternoon session. Presentations covered research about the perceptions of school leaders. Some interesting facts - most notably, for me, that people regarded mentoring as being one of the most effective forms of professional development for headship. [...]