Maximising Student Potential
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Here you’ll find my rants, raves, provocations and research about teaching, education and the educational landscape. This site contains my personal views about education and teaching.
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Questions That Will Define 2026
There’s a predictable rhythm to education. Every few years we rediscover an idea we abandoned a decade earlier and insist it’s revolutionary. The only constant is the pendulum swing: one decade it’s all soft lighting, beanbags, and “let the children lead”; the next it’s rigid scripts, highly structured lessons, and the kind of certainty usually…
Teaching: Better Paid, Still Broken
Teaching is a 9–3 job in the same way parenting is just birthday parties and Instagram photos. In a previous post on Becoming a Teacher and the work of a teacher, I wrote about what teachers actually do beyond the hours the public sees. It was anecdotal. It was based on my lived experience and others’, tired…
TikTok Kids, Burnt-Out Teachers, and the Illusion of Reinventing School
Every few years, we’re told the classroom has to be reinvented. Gen Z students learn differently. Gen Alpha will need something else entirely. Now Gen Z teachers are arriving, and apparently, they’re a new challenge too. The result is what I call generational whiplash. Gen Z supposedly required “21st century skills” (as if critical thinking…
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