As a teacher, I am always striving for ways to determine if students are making progress, hoping to identify those pupils who would benefit most from targeted intervention and also to give context to parents to help them understand if their child is doing OK. At my school, we need target grades for every student and […]
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My daughter was indignant to be rewarded by her primary school for reading at home six times in a week. The pleasure from her books, she told me, was reward itself. This got me thinking. In school science, do we focus on the intrinsic rewards of the subject itself, or are extrinsic rewards – achieving […]
Read more“Teachers in England have grown used to living in a world of targets. But we need to look at how we got here and what we are now doing – and how the 2014 National Curriculum marks a departure from things we have taken for granted.” In the first of a series of videos available […]
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