An education blog from Aidan Severs Consulting (www.aidansevers.com)
Sunday 13 December 2015
Forced Academisation: Will Hands Be Tied?
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The Lords are revolting! "How very dare you!" they reply to the Tory idea that all failing schools should convert to academies. ...
Tuesday 8 December 2015
Overtime: Are Teachers The Only Ones?
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Teachers’ workload : two words bound to get any teacher on their soapbox. Articles abound on the issue. The DfE even challenged us abo...
Saturday 14 November 2015
Perpetuating the Stereotype: Teachers
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Who is devaluing the teaching profession? The government? The media? The public? Or teachers themselves? Gandhi said "Be the chan...
Saturday 31 October 2015
Great Expectations
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I alluded in my last blog post to a previous version of said post which included a surfing metaphor. Prompted by this TES article by P...
Thursday 29 October 2015
Crowd Sourced: Advice on Coping with the Workload
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On Facebook I recently asked my teacher friends this question: What are your strategies for coping with the workload? I particularly...
Tuesday 27 October 2015
Dear SLT (on workload)
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This is the third time I've started this post totally afresh. As I've written each one, my thoughts have changed so that the audie...
Friday 12 June 2015
Addressing The Balance
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I was marking books during my lunch break when a colleague approached me asking for advice on work/life balance. She'd been sent to me...
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