Yorkshire based freelance writer, TES columnist, author of books and school support person.
Ex-HMI and national geography lead
Once a teacher
Wanderer of hills, wonderer of everything else.
Posting on Education, Folklore, Dungeons & Dragons and music.
Mark Enser
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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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If teachers only ever follow a playbook, who understands enough to write the next one?
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If teachers only ever follow a playbook, who understands enough to write the next one?
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That's the question at the heart of my latest Substack post, which argues that CPD focused on specifying practices creates cargo cult teaching - the appearance of good teaching without the understanding behind it.
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Same goes for planning and task design using AI.
What CPD gets wrong, and what it costs us
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A response to an interesting piece from Aidan Hesslewood in the @geographicalassoc.bsky.social journal Teaching Geography - is hope and a future-facing curriuclum really a problem in geography education?
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