I’m sorry, but this is quite a long post about the College of Teaching, a subject I first touched on three years ago. As well as being critical I also offer some suggestions. Read it at your peril, but please accept this as a view from a critical friend. I see three main issues with the… Read More The Three M’s
This is a bit of an addendum to my recent post on the DfE consultation about the proposed College of Teaching. In the consultation document (which is about two things – the CoT and CPD & professional Development) one of the sections that ‘caught my eye’ was this one relating to the expression of interests… Read More In the kingdom of glass everything is transparent…
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*
Lots of re-tweets over the past couple of days directing people to Tom Bennett’s (The Behaviour Guru) post about Teacher Voice, which for the most part I agree with whole-heartedly. I’ll get to why I’m not in complete agreement in a moment, but first some background reading. Before becoming a teacher I was a Chartered… Read More Accountants, coups d’état and why teachers should be Institutionalised
Distant Ramblings on the Horizon 