The Sworn Statement
johndabell How do you hold students accountable for their reading? If you are a smart teacher teaching smarter then you will strip back the white noise, do away with the superfluous…
2021
The Pollyanna Principle
How often do you play the ‘glad game’? Pollyanna played it all the time and it would do us all the world of good to do the same. Pollyanna lives…
Teachers And The Pratfall Effect
Teachers need to make deliberate mistakes. You will probably make enough naturally but it’s worth going out of your way to stage a couple of blunders in front of a…
DJ Teachers
I came across a sketchplanation by Jono Hey about what a good teacher is: Now this is spot on and worth exploring further. Are teachers like DJs? Yes we are,…
The Streisand Effect
The Streisand effect is a social phenomenon that occurs when an attempt to hide, remove, or censor information has the unintended consequence of further publicising that information. It is named…
Lighting Bonfires
Do you have a chit-chat over a kit-kat when it’s breaktime or do you squirrel yourself away in your classroom? There isn’t a right or wrong answer, unless of course…
How To Grow Your Own Fresh Air
How do you grow your own fresh air? Plants. With plants of course. But not just any old plant. Specific plants do specific jobs and we need to think more…
Chindogu: The Art of the Un-Useless
There are some things that are useful but also useless at the same time. They sort of serve a purpose but don’t. They are un-useless and quite absurd. Created in…
Are You Guilty Of Tsundoku?
Are you a master of tsundoku? I know I am. Tsundoku is the Japanese word for the stack of books you’ve purchased but haven’t yet read – it literally means…
The Trust Equation
Do your colleagues and students trust you? Trustworthiness is worth it’s weight in gold but what factors combine to make up this essential quality? The trust equation says an individual’s…