@DylanWiliam - why smart people do dumb things in education. A 38-minute canter through the research about cause and effect, exposing the flaws in past and current policy interventions. According DW the "love the one you are with" strategy (help the current teaching workforce get better) is the only game in town. Conclusions summarised below. - http://www.youtube.com/watch...!
DW's concluding remarks. Improve your practice for as long as you are working, or go. Focus on the things that make the most difference to learning (thus "no more brain gym", "no more learning styles"). Have each teacher choose what to work on, since they know their jobs and their learners better than anyone else. We need a relentless, slow focus on continuous improvement in teacher practice. Just like in PE, there is no point in comparing teachers with each other. What matters is that teachers are "improving their personal best", bit by bit, year on year..
- Seb Schmoller