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Great teachers spend less time marking and more time teaching
Category: Commentary
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Remember Building Schools of the Future? It was a flagship programme by the then Labour government to put old wine into new flasks whilst carefully avoiding doing anything that might actually improve the quality of teaching and learning in English schools. I thought it was a gross misappropriation of resources, and said so exactly 10 years…
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This report in the Sunday Times (paywalled) is cheering indeed. Matthew Hancock is promoting the idea that computers can handle the content side of education whilst teachers do the bit only they can do – mentoring, coaching and motivating. Many readers of this blog have been
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Yacapaca is designed to boost results across your school or college. Here’s how: Know what your students know with analytics From question-by-question detail, through key concept analysis, per-topic progression through the
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Yacapaca delivers criterion-referenced assessments. This makes it very useful for doing things like predicting exam grades, because exams are based on tightly-standardised criteria. A Grade C is the same in Barnsley as it is in Basingstoke. At the upper secondary stage (KS4 in England) we have been able to support a wide spectrum of qualifications, and…
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I’m very pleased to have had as many as 140 responses to the survey. The answers to the multiple choice questions were fairly predictable: The transition to mobile is well underway, with the usual spectrum of early- to late-adopters. iPads are where it’s at, but the strategy really has to embrace everything. At least no-one…
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