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A view on a room

The average teacher costs a school around £35,000 each year. So over the course of a 40 year career (I know that sounds unlikely, that’s the length of time from qualification to retirement) the average teacher costs £1.4m. That’s a lot of money so you’d think that schools would also spend a fair amount supporting… Read More A view on a room

July 4, 2019July 4, 2019 mikercameron4 Comments

Climbing the Wall

I happened to be waiting at the sports centre and was watching a group of kids being shown how to use the climbing wall. There were about 10 kids of late primary/early secondary age. The wall was one of those that had the little different coloured hand and foot holds everywhere. The kids had helmets… Read More Climbing the Wall

January 25, 2019January 25, 2019 mikercameron

Testing Times

Here’s where I start. All other things being equal (which they obviously aren’t) there is no detriment to learning times tables. How ever you learn them. By continuous practice, by chanting, by using an app. It’s all good. I know mine and I’m glad I do. The more that children know them the better off… Read More Testing Times

February 14, 2018February 14, 2018 mikercameron

On observations and grades

This post falls under the heading of “things I’m not sure if I should write about but have wanted to for a long time so here goes anyway”. I obviously do stuff to make money. You know, a job. The reason this post falls under the heading above is that it could be considered some… Read More On observations and grades

February 18, 2017 mikercameron

A Perfect Storm

There are teacher shortages in various subject areas. Maths, Physics, Computing to name but three. There are less people applying to enter teacher training this year than last and fewer in training this year. 5,000 or 12% down depending on your source of favoured method of describing shortages. Some areas of the economy are experiencing growth,… Read More A Perfect Storm

May 29, 2015November 4, 2015 mikercameron5 Comments

Is this an imaginary number which I see before me?

First the math. The BBC report today that equations can be beautiful. Apparently it took a few cognitive psychologists and an fMRI scanner to show what the more enlightened among us already knew (yes, I know its yet another fMRI story, but what the heck, it starts my post off). As I said here, Eulers… Read More Is this an imaginary number which I see before me?

February 13, 2014December 29, 2014 mikercameron2 Comments

Re-(licensing/validating/invigorating) the profession*

This post started out as a comment on @johndavidblake’s excellent blog this morning, but then it got too long and I thought, what the hell, why should he get all the hits. I came into teaching late, in my early thirties. I’d already had one career as a chartered accountant, a successful one. But I… Read More Re-(licensing/validating/invigorating) the profession*

January 12, 2014May 18, 2014 mikercameron7 Comments

Maybe I’m a bit odd, but…

Maybe I’m a bit odd but I don’t care if teachers are: Male or female; Black or white; Old or young; Gay or straight. I don’t care if they went or Oxbridge or Uxbridge. I certainly don’t care if they got a Geoffrey or a Desmond. I don’t care if they’ve worked outside education before… Read More Maybe I’m a bit odd, but…

July 21, 2013May 18, 2014 mikercameron

More nuance please

This morning I was accused of being rude to @daisychristo by saying that I had not heard any of the ‘myths’ she uses as chapter headings for her new book (available on Kindle (which is available as an app for all major devices)). I was subsequently advised that I couldn’t really take part in the discussion… Read More More nuance please

June 15, 2013May 18, 2014 mikercameron

Structural fixedness and its impact on innovation monkeys

Judging from the feedback I get, if you could find the average school somewhere in the country and asked what had happened to their budget over the last three years you would get the answer “unchanged”. That’s not a real terms unchanged, but a cash unchanged, including the impact of Pupil Premium. There have been… Read More Structural fixedness and its impact on innovation monkeys

May 22, 2013February 8, 2015 mikercameron

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