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What’s the point of lesson observations? I feel I need to start by saying that I am not questioning the need for lesson observations. They’re a crucial part of developing our professional practice and ensure T&L is quality assured. No, what this post is really concerned with is asking what we hope to achieve by observing teachers. For some time now I have been musing on the purpose of lesson observations as well as considering new ways to encourage staff to develop their teaching practice. Firstly, I had hesitantly and clumsily begun to connect the process of lesson observation with the thinking that underpins effective AfL. I understand that schools need know the strengths and weaknesses of their staff and that it is important to be able to tell Ofsted who is ‘outstanding’, ‘good’, ‘satisfactory’ and ‘inadequate’, but do teachers need to be told this? A few months later I came across an article entitled “How we learned to stop worrying and love feedback”. I then had a conversation with the English AST at my school. Like this:
'Failure week' at top girls' school to build resilience 5 February 2012Last updated at 00:52 By Judith Burns Education reporter, BBC News Headmistress Heather Hanbury said "Failure Week" should teach high performing pupils not to shun risk A top girls' school is planning a "failure week" to teach pupils to embrace risk, build resilience and learn from their mistakes. The emphasis will be on the value of having a go, rather than playing it safe and perhaps achieving less. Pupils at Wimbledon High School will be asked how they feel when they fail. The headmistress, Heather Hanbury, said she wanted to show "it is completely acceptable and completely normal not to succeed at times in life." Ms Hanbury's pupils achieve some of the highest exam scores - but from Monday they will be invited to focus on failure. There will be workshops, assemblies, and activities for the girls, with parents and tutors joining in with tales of their own failures. There will be YouTube clips of famous and successful people who have failed along the way and moved on.
Kidsmeet Blackpool Yesterday Kidsmeet Blackpool took place at Hawes Side Primary School and I thought that people would be interested to hear about it. The explanation of a Kidsmeet on the official site is KidsMeet is a concept developed from the success of TeachMeet. KidsMeet events provide children with the opportunity to speak about their learning in a positive environment. This is in the form of a 5 – 7 minute group presentation to be given by children, for children. I was honoured to be asked by the organisers to compere the event and to do the difficult part of being the only speaker there over the age of 11. The event took place in the huge hall at the school and it soon became clear that the whole space was going to filled with children by 2pm when we were due to start. The event was opened with a welcome from Michael Shepherd, Headteacher of Hawes Side Primary who was being watched on a live stream by all of the classes in his school. This blog post shows their presentation My reflections
Reverse mentoring boosts corporate learning By Kim Yong-seong Imagine that you are invited to a brainstorming session at an advertising agency. Young enthusiastic employees are trying to persuade the senior managers to buy their ideas on location-based mobile advertisement services. However, you can easily tell that the harder the young people try to impress, the more confused the gray-haired seniors become on the other side of the table. In most cases, seniors are experienced professionals who know how to get things done the old way. We can learn from great leaders about how to tackle such an issue. As a seasoned businessman, Welch quickly noticed that there were huge business opportunities in this field. He himself asked a young employee to teach him about the unfamiliar subject. In the meanwhile, being able to influence the senior executives empowered the young employees. Reverse mentoring became a hit and spread across companies as business leaders realized the benefits of the new practice.
Will We Need Teachers Or Algorithms? Editor’s note: This is Part III of a guest post written by legendary Silicon Valley investor Vinod Khosla, the founder of Khosla Ventures. In Part I, he laid the groundwork by describing how artificial intelligence is a combination of human and computer capabilities In Part II, he discussed how software and mobile technologies can augment and even replace doctors. Now, in Part III, he talks about how technology will sweep through education. In my last post, I argued that software will take over many of the tasks doctors do today. And what of education? We find a very similar story of what the popular – and incredibly funny! I want to comment on what I consider a far greater misuse of talent and training: that of our children/students, mostly here talking about high school education. Identifying Emerging Trends In Education There are new key trends that I see emerging in education enabled by advancing technology: namely decentralization and gamification. Envisioning Future Education
Mark Zuckerberg’s 6 Ingredients For Success Editor’s note: Contributor Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is the founder and CEO of WatchMojo. Follow him @ashkan. Leadership guru Warren Bennis asked whether leaders are born or made. When asked if Wall Street would accept a young Mark Zuckerberg in his early 20s as CEO, Facebook investor Peter Thiel said: “Well, we’ll wait until he’s over 25 to file”. This week Facebook filed its S-1 to go public. Ambition “The tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut by the scythe”, Russian Proverb The foundation and building block of any successful person is Ambition, or the desire for personal achievement. People are driven by success, recognition, respect, money, power or fame. Wearing your ambition on your sleeve will get you cut off at the knees, but ambition is required to succeed; the challenge is channeling it properly and managing your emotions around it. Vision A design glitch allowed MySpace users to customize their profiles. Facebook wasn’t visionary in any revolutionary sense of the word. Luck
5 Personal Learning Networks (PLNs) for Educators Professional development and networking are vital in any field, and that’s especially true for educators. Whether it’s coming up with fresh ideas for lesson plans and classroom activities, seeking mentorship and support from veteran educators, or cultivating resources for technology integration or for meeting state standards, teachers need one another’s expertise. That’s why working with other educators in personal learning networks (PLNs) has become as important in an educator’s day as the time he or she spends teaching in class. Below is a short list of PLNs that already exist, followed by some resources to help teachers build their own The Educator’s PLN is a Ning site (or online platform for creating your own social network) that facilitates connections between educators. Resources for Building or Finding Your Own Educators, which learning networks do you belong to? Related
llaboration gives way to dog eat dog at the HE funding bowl - FE news Last Updated:23 March, 2012Section:FE news University severs college partnerships amid competition for places One of the biggest accreditors of degrees in FE is terminating almost all of its partnerships with colleges. Over the past year, it has ended its partnerships with five colleges and over the course of 2012 it expects to shut down another 12. While many colleges have been able to find new university partners to continue their provision, the decision is a further sign of the increasing competition between universities and colleges for a limited number of student places. For Leeds Met, it has meant a decision not to pass on any of its allocation of places to colleges through franchising. According to the Association of Colleges (AoC), this is a nation-wide trend. The loss of franchised places is partly a response to colleges’ increasing success in winning direct funding: last week, they won more than half of the 20,000 low-cost places held in reserve by Hefce.
Welcome to my Professional Portfolio! | Selena Woodward's Example Build iPhone and Android apps or HTML5 mobile web app online. Online communities are transforming professional development for teachers | Teacher Network | Guardian Professional It's strange looking back now at when I first started teaching 10 years ago. I moved a long distance to take up my first post, and so the only teachers I knew in my new area were the ones who worked in my new school. When I left three years later, this was still the case. In those three years, the only teachers I discussed teaching with were those who happened to occupy the same staff room as me. Even CPD events weren't that great an opportunity to network as the population of teachers in the south of England, where I was working at the time, is so vast that I never a encountered the same teacher more than once at any course. This form of professional isolation isn't a big problem if you work in a large and vibrant school where the staff and the leadership team are innovating and have open minds to change. This first began to change for me when I encountered blogging. And then Twitter arrived.