Comments for Scenes From The Battleground http://teachingbattleground.wordpress.com Teaching in British schools Sat, 25 May 2013 11:59:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on About The Echo Chamber by Geraldine Carter http://teachingbattleground.wordpress.com/2013/05/25/about-the-echo-chamber/#comment-8631 Sat, 25 May 2013 11:59:48 +0000 http://teachingbattleground.wordpress.com/2013/05/25/about-the-echo-chamber/#comment-8631 I find it extraordinary that education pages of Guardian, Independent so rarely engage with what is happening within schools. Guardian Education, in particular, has been woefully lacking for decades. It seems that advertising revenue from DfE is more important than engaging in analysis.

]]> Comment on RELOADED: The Cast of Culprits Part 3. The School Leaders by What makes great school leadership? | Pragmatic Education http://teachingbattleground.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/reloaded-the-cast-of-culprits-part-3-the-school-leaders/#comment-8630 Sat, 25 May 2013 03:55:45 +0000 http://oldandrew.edublogs.org/2008/03/28/reloaded-the-cast-of-culprits-part-3-the-school-leaders/#comment-8630 […] Old Andrew’s satire of SLT leading the school INSET day, a senior leader announces: “Our first session will be about using data. During this session some […]

]]> Comment on Excuses, Excuses – This Time from the Grown Ups by What makes great school leadership? | Pragmatic Education http://teachingbattleground.wordpress.com/2008/04/13/excuses-excuses-this-time-from-the-grown-ups/#comment-8629 Sat, 25 May 2013 03:55:42 +0000 http://oldandrew.edublogs.org/2008/04/13/excuses-excuses-this-time-from-the-grown-ups/#comment-8629 […] This was excused by computer errors and students removing incident reports from desks’. The excuses that SLT come up with to explain poor behaviour have been extensively catalogued by […]

]]> Comment on Eight Out Of Forty-Three Ain’t Bad (If You’re a Member of SMT) by What makes great school leadership? | Pragmatic Education http://teachingbattleground.wordpress.com/2009/04/30/eight-out-of-forty-three-ain%e2%80%99t-bad-if-you%e2%80%99re-a-member-of-smt/#comment-8628 Sat, 25 May 2013 03:55:40 +0000 http://teachingbattleground.wordpress.com/?p=532#comment-8628 […] only are promises made that are never followed up, but excuses are made that are never resolved. In this revealing anecdote from Andrew Old, teachers in these schools begin to ‘expect SLT and Head of Years to ignore […]

]]> Comment on Seven Habits of Highly Defective Headteachers by What makes great school leadership? | Pragmatic Education http://teachingbattleground.wordpress.com/2008/05/26/seven-habits-of-highly-defective-headteachers/#comment-8627 Sat, 25 May 2013 03:55:35 +0000 http://oldandrew.edublogs.org/?p=199#comment-8627 […] 1 million hits, we can adapt this to look at what makes SLT in English schools effective – and defective. What follows has been collated by asking many colleagues in tough schools nationally about their […]

]]> Comment on Heroes of SMT by What makes great school leadership? | Pragmatic Education http://teachingbattleground.wordpress.com/2008/05/31/heroes-of-smt/#comment-8626 Sat, 25 May 2013 03:55:32 +0000 http://oldandrew.edublogs.org/?p=204#comment-8626 […] and is approaching 1 million hits, we can adapt this to look at what makes SLT in English schools effective – and defective. What follows has been collated by asking many colleagues in tough schools […]

]]> Comment on The Government Should Listen to Teachers. And By “Teachers”, I Mean “Me” by Emma P http://teachingbattleground.wordpress.com/2013/05/22/the-government-should-listen-to-teachers-and-by-teachers-i-mean-me/#comment-8603 Thu, 23 May 2013 21:25:34 +0000 http://teachingbattleground.wordpress.com/?p=2184#comment-8603 Gove and Andrew sItting in a tree
K-I-S-S-I-N-G!

]]> Comment on Why I’m against Performance-Related Pay by The Government should listen to teachers. And by “teachers”, I mean “me” http://teachingbattleground.wordpress.com/2013/04/17/why-im-against-performance-related-pay/#comment-8594 Thu, 23 May 2013 07:31:35 +0000 http://teachingbattleground.wordpress.com/?p=2115#comment-8594 […] I’m not sure I particularly appreciate this description. I hardly agree with Gove on everything. […]

]]> Comment on The Government Should Listen to Teachers. And By “Teachers”, I Mean “Me” by cunningfox http://teachingbattleground.wordpress.com/2013/05/22/the-government-should-listen-to-teachers-and-by-teachers-i-mean-me/#comment-8591 Wed, 22 May 2013 21:03:17 +0000 http://teachingbattleground.wordpress.com/?p=2184#comment-8591 ‘the most articulate and effective supporters of _some_ of the things we are doing’ (my underscore).

The phrasing seems reasonable enough to me, if not rather an underestimate.

]]> Comment on The Government Should Listen to Teachers. And By “Teachers”, I Mean “Me” by teachingbattleground http://teachingbattleground.wordpress.com/2013/05/22/the-government-should-listen-to-teachers-and-by-teachers-i-mean-me/#comment-8590 Wed, 22 May 2013 20:44:27 +0000 http://teachingbattleground.wordpress.com/?p=2184#comment-8590 Reblogged this on The Echo Chamber and commented:

Apologies for the slightly circular nature of reblogging this one.

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