Drawing on Berliner's research on expert teachers, Priestley on teacher agency, and Stenhouse on teacher professionalism, I make the case that principles beat practices every time — and that the stakes are higher than we think.
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Such a good article. Inclusion in a state school isn’t always the best for the children involved. Teaching science to a non-verbal child at P1 alongside 30 classmates, some of whom needed stretching at KS3, made me realise how much he was being short changed.
Not being dramatic, but this probably signals the effective end of Chemistry in English Universities.
An *efficient* Department loses something like £2k per Chemistry student per year; this change will roughly double that loss. Universities would be mad to keep teaching Chemistry.
If you are wondering whether governments should do more to ban PFAS chemicals consider this: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Mark Enser
Sunny but rather breezy at Bromley for the Kent Schools’ Athletics Championships
“Hats off gentlemen!” The Skinners’ Y12 Chemists tackle the @rsc.org Analyst Competition
Richard Newbold
Richard Newbold
The Bug Club on top form at Concorde 2, Brighton
Watching a bicycle wheel go round and round before the start of The Soy who came in from the cold
Mark Miodownik
Michael O’Neill
Not to @theofficialgrb.bsky.social standards but quite pleased how this has come out. Next stop is getting a letterbox that isn’t just glued on!
Richard Newbold
Breaking: Government set to cut strategic priorities grant.
The government is on the cusp of cutting public funding for higher education teaching, the head of Universities UK has told MPs, placing institutions under even more financial pressure.
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Richard Newbold
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Richard Newbold
Vivienne Stern says letter confirming cut to teaching funds will be sent out “in days”
“If you’ve got five different lessons in a day, in five different classrooms with five different teachers, and this before we’ve talked about the corridors, and the smells, and where you have lunch – it’s overwhelming,” [the head] said. “So at our school, we have to get our environment right.”
Scientists believe they may now have found the cause of Fair Isle’s pollution – and warn that it should be ringing alarm bells in other coastal areas
Labour doesn't seem to like Send schools for kids like mine – but here's what we'll lose if these precious places are forgotten | John Harris
An autism school in Wiltshire exemplifies what’s so different about education in a tailored environment, and the outcomes for children speak for themselves, says Guardian columnist John Harris
