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In 2010, my secondary school initiated a Learning to Learn (L2L) curriculum for all students in Year 7. There was a competitive selection process, and I was chosen to be one of a team of 5...
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Scotland鈥檚 Curriculum for Excellence treats the subject of history (or People, Past Events and Societies, as it is known) as a 鈥榮ocial subject鈥 alongside geography and modern studies.聽 It...
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High quality school-based mentoring was singled out for needing 'much greater status and recognition' in the Carter Review of initial teacher education in England, and development of national...
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How can we be the best professionals possible without making all the mistakes personally? It鈥檚 true that we can learn from our own mistakes. We have to recognize them, have the chance to reflect...
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My interest in the use of technology for learning originates from my initial professional role as a Clinical Diagnostic Radiographer. This led me on to teach Diagnostic Radiography and undertake...
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Context: Educational Excellence Everywhere White Paper March 2016 The White paper proposes: a 鈥榥ew accreditation鈥 that鈥 will raise the quality and status of the teaching profession, better...
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Dorothy Heathcote died in October 2011 at the age of 85. Although an academic for most of her life, first at Durham and then at Newcastle, Heathcote continued to teach in classrooms almost up...
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Globalisation, cyborg identities, potentially powerful social media oblige educators to deploy educational tools, toys, texts and technologies for oecumene, global bioethics, political justice for...
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Conducting research in naturalistic settings is not as straightforward and orderly as described in research books and journal articles. In this blog post, I will briefly reflect on the challenges...
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