Carousel: Teaching, Learning, Leading
Thoughts on teaching, learning, and leading from Adam Boxer & the Carousel team.
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Calm, quiet, peaceful lessons (opens the original)
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We have a lot of problems in our education system. Attendance rates are lower than they were pre-pandemic. Mental health concerns have been steadily rising. Young people’s life satisfaction seems lower than it has ever been. The number of students on SEND registers and with EHCPs has risen year on year for over a decade. There are hundreds of thousands of young people aged 16 to 19 who are not in education, employment or training. Disadvantaged students still perform at a lower level than their
FLMOP (opens the original)
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Tom is a science teacher in Schoolington Academy. His students are just finishing off marking a short assessment, and he says:“Put a score out of 8 on the sheet, and pass them left to right down the tables, and then down to the front. Get your chemistry books out as well.”Tom goes straight to his laptop and swaps the screen over so students can see the title and lesson objective. Noise has bubbled up in the room and he says:“Ok guys settle down, I’ve not asked anyone to talk, make sure you write
Good schools first (opens the original)
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There are two schools on the same street. They serve the same community and have the same students. School A is well-run. It has a tight behaviour policy, a rigorous approach to long-term memory, and strong pedagogy in every classroom. Almost all students are on time to lessons, complete their homework, and participate in every lesson.School B is less well-run. The behaviour policy is loose, and students routinely disrupt learning. There is calling out in class, and some students never have thei
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