John Dabell

Outdoor Learning Wet Play 

It’s Wet Break!

April 22, 2019April 9, 2019 johndabell 0 Comments goldfish, lesson observation, lunchtime, outdoors, wet break, wet play

What happens when it’s wet break?

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Teaching 

My Favourite Things

April 21, 2019April 21, 2019 johndabell 0 Comments favourite things, Julie Andrews, The Sound of Music

In the Sound of Music, melodious Julie Andrews wasted no time at all in sharing with us some of her

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Teachers Teaching 

Is Teaching A Calling?

April 20, 2019April 8, 2019 johndabell 0 Comments calling, divine, DNA, natural born teacher

Is being a teacher a calling?

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In The News 

Newsround

April 19, 2019April 19, 2019 johndabell 0 Comments Department for Education, National Education Union, Neyland Community School, Ofsted, poverty, Risedale Sports and Community College, The Sutton Trust

What’s been happening in the news this week?

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Leadership Management Ofsted 

Lions Led By Donkeys

April 18, 2019April 9, 2019 johndabell 0 Comments Frank Chalk, Heathside Preparatory School, Ofsted, safeguarding, Senior Leadership Team (SLT)

Some Senior Leadership Teams (SLT) are the bees knees and cat’s whiskers. They know what they are doing and the

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Teaching and Learning 

Children Are Liars

April 17, 2019April 17, 2019 johndabell 0 Comments John Jerrim, liar, mistake-making, overclaiming, overconfidence, psychologically safe, University College of London

Children are natural born liars. And so are the adults around them. Everyone lies. It’s in or DNA to tell pork

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Planning 

The Planning Fallacy

April 16, 2019April 7, 2019 johndabell 0 Comments Amos Tversky, being prepared, Chris Hadfield, Daniel Kahneman, editing, journey, lesson planning, optimism, outcomes, planning fallacy

Although teachers have to do loads of planning, some of us aren’t that good at it.

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Performance Psychology 

Are You Fit For Teaching?

April 15, 2019April 5, 2019 johndabell 0 Comments antifragile, careers advice, mental fitness, Nassim Taleb, stress, wellbeing, workload

To be a teacher you need to be mentally fit. Of course, being physically fit helps but this is a

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Fiction Moon People 

The Papple-Wicks

April 14, 2019April 5, 2019 johndabell 0 Comments Moon People, The Papple-Wicks

Are you off to the Moon soon? Then you will need to know about the Papple-Wicks.

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In The News 

Newsround

April 13, 2019April 13, 2019 johndabell 0 Comments David Didau, Dr Ben Marder, Education and Skills (EDSK), Jo Boaler, LGBT, mathematical motivation, misgendering, news, nursery rhyme, Online Harms, Shigetaka Kurita, social media

What’s been happening in the news just lately?

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