Tag: teachers

Explaining in the classroom: the importance of relationship

I see a lot of explaining happening in classrooms, and I did a lot of explaining as a teacher. It’s a key aspect of instruction, which has been much theorised and written about. For what it’s worth, this is how I see the anatomy of explanation – its mechanical elements and its hugely important (but... Continue Reading →

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Teaching & learning: prescription versus autonomy

As schools develop their teaching and learning ‘strategies’, or ‘policies’, or ‘principles’, they have to grapple with the balancing of autonomy with consistency – of teacher or subject difference with common expectations. Speaking to the Confederation of School Trusts in 2024, Sir Kevin Collins painted a bleak picture of the more extreme prescriptiveness, which he... Continue Reading →

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