An education blog from Aidan Severs Consulting (www.aidansevers.com)
Saturday 19 December 2015
Family First?
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"When's Daddy coming to my Christmas play?" asked my five year old daughter on more than one occasion. "He has to go t...
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...
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