Why we’ve got differentiation wrong
Edssential article from @andrewwarnerkms : I hate the way that many of us teachers are encouraged to differentiate, and the way that many teachers understand the term. In contemporary education,...
View ArticleMarking is feedback is differentiation is planning
Edssential article from @kennypieper: For the #blogsync project “A Teaching and Learning strategy intended to elicit the highest levels of student motivation in my subject” I may be opening myself up...
View ArticleGreat Lessons 4: Differentiation
Edssential article from @headguruteacher : The aim of this series of posts is to focus on the habits of excellent practice; our default mode. As I have said elsewhere, every class is a mixed ability...
View ArticleBuilding Challenge: Differentiation that’s quick and works
Edssential article from @learningspy : Since having a good long think about differentiation some while back it doesn’t keep me up at nights nearly as much as it used to. But this is still one of my...
View ArticleApproaching Differentiation: The proof is in the pudding
Edssential article from @andrewwarnerkms : This year I have been trying to use a common sense approach to challenge and differentiation. Rather than slavishly accept the doctrine to dumb down my...
View ArticleHigh Expectations? Hmmm
Edssential article from @Teachric : Item 1 for discussion: “have high expectations of children and young people” This used to be the first teaching standard back in the day when there was a proper...
View ArticleWhat Do I Do With the Scary Smart Ones?
Edssential article from @readingthebooks : A member of SLT I greatly admire told me recently “I don’t like labels.” I think I had forgotten you were allowed to say that in a school. We have so very...
View ArticleGifted and talented at reading loads of books
Edssential article from @Xris32 : I am asking the common question again: What can I do to push students? Like a pinball machine, a teacher’s head has lots of things and questions wheezing around in it...
View ArticleDefining the Butterfly: Knowing the Standards to Set the Standards
Edssential article from @headguruteacher : In preparing to deliver some CPD inputs recently, at my own school and another in Essex, I’ve been thinking about the problem of providing the appropriate...
View ArticleDifferentiating the responsive way
Edssential article from @atharby : In last week’s post – here – I looked at how we might mark students’ written work strategically, considering not just the feedback we will give them, but also the...
View ArticlePace, challenge, engagement and differentiation: clearing up the confusion.
Edssential article from @andrewwarnerkms : Last week we had some external CPD at our school. It was quite good as far as these things go; interactive, practical and with lots of ideas for activities...
View ArticleDealing with Day-to-day Differentiation
Edssential article from @headguruteacher : This week I ran a session on differentiation with our NQTs. I felt it was a good, open session where we could all share some ideas and describe the challenges...
View ArticleGetting Great
Edssential article from @shaun_allison: Teaching is a creative profession, and at DHS we want our teachers to be innovative and excited about what they do – not stifled by an overly prescriptive...
View ArticleDistilling the best out of words
Edssential article from @atharby: After reading Doug Lemov’s Teach Like a Champion this weekend, I got to considering two of the main strategies he advocates: ‘Right is Right’ and ‘Format Matters’....
View ArticleIt’s a Myth-tery: 7 ways in which Ofsted are better than SLTs
Edssential article from @kevbartle: This is a summary of my presentation to Teaching and Learning Takeover (TLT14) this October. The organisers asked me to base my presentation on my most-read blogpost...
View ArticleThe Big Question: raising challenge by dropping objectives.
Edssential article from @andrewwarnerkms: My new school, like many schools, has twilight sessions dedicated to staff development. Each session is led by a member of staff and focuses on an aspect of...
View ArticleTeacher workload: Can it be sustained?
Edssential article from @GoldFishBowlMM : Like many teachers, I filled in the DfE workload survey. I tried thinking about the external demands that increase teacher workloads but I quickly realised...
View Article#TLT14: Another amazing day in Southampton
Edssential article from @TeacherTweaks : It was about this time last year, still buzzing after the first ever Teaching and Learning Takeover (#TLT13) that we found ourselves asking whether Jen and...
View ArticleCan I be that little bit better at…..understanding why I might be getting...
Edssential article from @davidfawcett27 : There are a few things in education that either scare me or confuse me. One such thing is the term differentiation. When I trained as a teacher we discussed...
View ArticleDifferentiation: Just because it can’t be seen, doesn’t mean it’s not there.
Edssential article from @andyphilipday : I was asked to lead a morning session on Differentiation to a group of professionals on their training day this January. Not the usual symposium of teachers –...
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