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November 2018
What Does Your Team Look Like?
When you consider the people in your team, what sort of mix do you have?
Jugyou Kenkyu
The central feature of teacher learning in Japan is called Jugyou Kenkyu or lesson study. It is a way for teachers find opportunities to reflect on many school and classroom…
Will You Be Having A Happy Christmas?
In Harpo Speaks, the American comedian, actor, mime artist, and musician says that “School was all wrong. It didn’t teach anybody how to exist from day to day, which was…
Is Your School The Little Shop Of Horrors?
The culture of an organisation is all the beliefs, feelings, behaviours, and symbols that are characteristic of an organisation. More specifically, organisational culture is defined as shared philosophies, ideologies, beliefs,…
The Law Of Requisite Variety
You will no doubt have heard the following before, spuriosuly linked to Henry Ford: If you always do what you have always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.…
Thorndike’s Law of Effect
One of the first principles associated with learning and behaviour was developed by Edward Lee Thorndike and this has become known as Thorndike’s Law of Effect. Thorndike was a pioneer…
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The Wonder Of Precepts
In the film Wonder, Mr Browne writes on the board: “Your deeds are your monuments.” This gets me immediately thinking. If it gets me thinking then it’s going to get…
DNA On Entry
In Teach Like A Champion, Doug Lemov refers to something called a ‘Do Now’. I have also seen this called a DNA (Do Now Activity) or DNA on entry –…