Top Blogs of the Week : Schools Week (July 2015)
July 16, 2015Schools Week have published my review of the best blogs of the week.
Activities: the devil will find work for idle hands to do
By @JamesTheo
An English teacher explains how his department has abandoned its old belief that lessons could be planned by identifying great activities to do, and then working out what could be learned from them. “This is the cult of activity: an unconscious belief that occupying pupils with something is the most important part of lesson or homework planning, over and above deciding what it is that we want pupils to learn.”
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