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My two-day battle with Ofsted
A school judged outstanding but for the data with inspectors refusing to take context or evidence on the ground into account. Our headteacher diarist takes us through their two-day battle with Ofsted. My key language teacher interviews were interru…
Headteachers' Diary, 23rd May 2013
Jobless teachers to give catch-up tuition
Thousands of Northern Ireland secondary pupils struggling with English and maths are to benefit from one-to-one tuition as part of a scheme to find jobs for out-of-work teachers. The North’s education minister John O’Dowd says 150 teachers wi…
Simon Doyle, 23rd May 2013
Schools shun cost-effective Pupil Premium strategies
Secondary schools are shunning two of the most cost-effective ways of spending the Pupil Premium. A study has found that two of the cheapest and most effective approaches – improving student feedback and peer-to-peer tutoring – are not bein…
Pete Henshaw, 23rd May 2013
At a glance headlines – May 23, 2013
Holocaust CPD, year 7 literacy resources, epilepsy support and a look at teachers' commuting habits are among the At a glance headlines for SecEd on May 23, 2013. Commuting time One in 10 teachers are now completing school work during their commutes to …
SecEd Reporter, 22nd May 2013
Arts & Minds competition challenges prejudice and racism
Schools have just over a month to get their students’ entries in for the 10th annual Arts and Minds Awards. The arts and creative writing challenge helps UK schools and students to celebrate and promote cultural diversity. The competition en…
SecEd Reporter, 21st May 2013
Five lessons from Washington for closing the achievement gap
A visit to Washington DC to discover how schools there are closing the achievement gap yielded fascinating results for 12 UK middle leaders. James Watson discusses the five significant lessons he has learnt. Last month, 12 middle leaders on the Teachin…
16th May 2013
A simply appalling idea
The bid to remove speaking and listening from the final English GCSE grade will have fundamental repercussions for students, says SecEd's increasingly angry headteacher diarist. I’m angry and becoming angrier all the time. I’ve looked back ov…
Headteachers' Diary, 16th May 2013
Estyn wants numeracy and literacy results from September
Wales’s chief inspector of schools believes plans to improve levels of literacy and numeracy should show results from September. Ann Keane, head of education inspectorate Estyn, said she was “frustrated” by the pace of improvement but a…
Moira Sharkey, 16th May 2013
Pedagogical poverty
Dotards like me are prone to drone on about what bliss it was to be young in the Summer of Love in 1967. I’m afraid it’s still the case. But it was even more blissful to be doing my PGCE at the Institute of Education in that year. The place re…