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This page has links to a selection of my published articles on teaching
and learning and wider educational management topics. You are free to download these for your own use, but please don't
copy them on to anyone else, or use them in staff training handbooks, without first asking permission. You can contact me
here.
TEACHING AND LEARNING
g Accelerated learning: what's all the fuss about?
This article explains how your children can benefit from the methods known collectively
as 'accelerated learning'. Click here to read this article (originally published in Gifted & Talented Update).
g Creativity for more able students
In this article I argue that we must actively teach creativity if our more able
learners are to play their full role as decision-makers in the world of tomorrow. Click here to read the article (originally published in Gifted & Talented Update).
g Objectivist
or constructivist?
This article explores the kind of learning environment young people prefer to work in.
Click here to read the article (originally published in Teaching Expertise).
g Practical
personalised learning
This article explains how to make sense of the government's personalised learning agenda,
with particular relevance to more able learners. Click here to read the article (originally published in Gifted & Talented Update).
g Time for a
thinking revolution about effective teaching
In this article I call for a fundamental rethink of what works in the classroom. Click here to read the article (originally published in Teaching Expertise).
g Transforming
teaching and learning with logovisual thinking
This article explains how a hands-on tool can help learners to make profound leaps in their
learning. Click here to read the article (originally published in Teaching Expertise).
g The Settle
Millennium Map
This article explains how one school in Yorkshire set out to produce a special map to celebrate
the start of the third millennium. Click here to read this article.
g The Settle
Together! Project: citizenship in action
This article, co-written with Gill O'Donnell, explains the results of an innovative three year intergenerational
project that built lasting links in North Yorkshire. Click here to read this article (originally published in Citizenship File).
g Values and
effective teaching
In this article I argue that we need to include an examination of personal and professional
values in any determination of effective teaching. Click here to read the article (originally published in Teaching Expertise).
g What can education research tell us about effective teaching?
This article shows how research into classroom culture can cast light on the magic of effective teaching.
Click here to read this article (originally published in Teaching Expertise).
SCHOOL MANAGEMENT
g Are you fundraising
for school improvement?
In this article I argue that fundraising should be seen as a powerful means of school improvement,
rather than an isolated activity carried out by a few staff or the Parent Teacher Association. Click here to read this article (orginally published in Secondary Headship).
g Improving your
school's profile
This article explains how a strategic approach to promoting your school can bring widespread
benefit for students and staff. Click here to read this article (orginally published in Secondary Headship).
g Risk assessment,
risk management and funding the changes
This article, co-written with Gill O'Donnell, explains how to make practical sense of risk
assessment in schools and offers advice on funding streams that can help you to implement changes. Click here to read this article.
g Do you have
a school fundraising vision and strategy?
In this article explains why your school's fundraising work will not be fully effective unless
it is underpinned by a clear vision and strategy. Click here to read this article (orginally published in School Financial Management).
g Who wants to
be a millionaire?
This article explains how primary schools can get their fair share of the external fundraising cake,
now worth £1 billion to schools each year. Click here to read this article (orginally published in Primary File).
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