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Category: Leadership

Coaching vs mentoring 

On July 17, 2017 By Every day is a school dayIn Leadership, Marking and FeedbackLeave a comment

https://amp.theguardian.com/teacher-network/teacher-blog/2014/aug/05/coaching-mentoring-teachers-professional-development

How to improve teaching and learning 

On July 17, 2017 By Every day is a school dayIn AfL, Growth Mindset, Leadership, Marking and FeedbackLeave a comment

Here is the mother lode of blogs of the week on how to improve teaching and learning.

Blog of the week

NQT mentoring

On July 9, 2017 By Every day is a school dayIn Leadership, ResearchLeave a comment

Unsurprisingly good NQT mentoring can make a significant difference to outcomes for students taught by new staff

http://mobile.edweek.org/c.jsp?cid=25920011&item=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.edweek.org%2Fv1%2Fblog%2F83%2F%3Fuuid%3D72653&cmp=soc-fb-shr&utm_content=bufferf4612&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Transformational coaching 

On July 8, 2017 By Every day is a school dayIn LeadershipLeave a comment

https://www.bera.ac.uk/blog/power-to-the-people-can-teacher-coaching-be-viewed-as-a-form-of-transactional-leadership

Literacy report from the EEF

On June 25, 2017 By Every day is a school dayIn Closing the Gap, Leadership, Research, SENDLeave a comment

This report has some recommendations that brings a new perspective to literacy development. Very interesting for teachers of all subjects. 

Click to access KS2_Literacy_Guidance_2017.pdf

And a blog by Alex Quigley on the implications of this report

Why Whole-School Literacy Fails!

How to get your message across effectively 

On June 19, 2017 By Every day is a school dayIn LeadershipLeave a comment

This is from Harvard Business Review. They know a thing or two about pep talks.

https://hbr.org/2017/07/the-science-of-pep-talks

Teachers and Twitter

On June 18, 2017 By Every day is a school dayIn AfL, LeadershipLeave a comment

If you have not harnessed the power of twitter than you should…

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/teacher-network/2017/apr/20/teachers-on-twitter-why-join-get-started-social-media

Middle leadership tips

On June 18, 2017 By Every day is a school dayIn LeadershipLeave a comment

A no nonsense blog about middle leadership. Perceptive.

Being a Head of Department

What Is Not Working in Education (and What We Can Do About It)

On June 11, 2017 By Every day is a school dayIn AfL, Closing the Gap, Leadership, ResearchLeave a comment

A great article here about where education goes from here. The image is relevant!!!!

What Is Not Working in Education (and What We Can Do About It)

Coaching

On May 30, 2017 By Every day is a school dayIn Growth Mindset, Leadership, ResearchLeave a comment

Have you ever had the opportunity to be coached?
Are you open to the idea?

What would make you hesitant to engage with coaching?

What do you think are the benefits of having a coach?

#EducoachOC Chat 19: What’s in it for me?

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