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Which is more difficult: world’s toughest sport or teaching?
With the Rio Olympics and school term in full swing, I poured a glass or red and asked myself: Which one is more difficult: the world’s toughest sport or … teaching? For the record, I played THE...
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So you want to teach?
“As an experienced teacher, what is your advice to teachers who are just starting out?” I have been asked this question many times. At times, I dispensed with a bit of advice, often I have either had...
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Social work is an academic discipline and profession that concerns itself with individuals, families, groups and communities in an effort to enhance social functioning and overall well-being....
View ArticleAct of conversation
Today, I relieved for a colleague in her Advisory class. At our Big Picture school, Advisory is where the same group of students with the same teacher for four years learn, pursue interests, go on...
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Why (do I work here)?
This week, a colleague asked a good question: Why do you work here? In this school? Let’s say you take the ‘get paid’ part for granted so … why here? Very briefly – our school is a Big Picture school....
View ArticleRelational Teaching – start of a journey
After over two decades of conversations, debriefs and shared insights on working with people, my wife and I agreed on one thing more than any others – when working with people, relationship is crucial...
View ArticleCollaborative professionalism – thoughts on Hargreaves and O’Connor
A few weeks ago I came across an interesting phrase on the grand serendipitor Twitter – “collaborative professionalism”. What made it even more interesting was the book of that name that bore the names...
View ArticleLeaving the school, again
A few days ago, I hinted on Twitter I am leaving Yule Brook College at the end of this year. It’s the end of four years of not just teaching here but four years of daily think about the place and its...
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Never forget
Image credit: http://revita.bg As the school holidays near the end and I look forward to starting a new role that doesn’t include classroom teaching, I have sworn to myself never to forget what it...
View ArticleCoaching for what
Done! Just finished coaching my first cohort of early career teachers (ECT). I have done so as part of the Graduate Teacher Induction, a trailblazing programme (in its ninth year mind you) by the...
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