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So what does work?

At the end of almost every training session I’ve run on implementing educational research, someone puts a hand up and asks the question the room has been waiting for: “That’s all very interesting, but what actually works?”

It’s a fair ques...

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How schools mask poor writing

If you’ve ever sat through a book scrutiny, you’ll know the scene. A pile of Year 9 books, open at the last extended answer. Every one is a neat paragraph: a point, a piece of evidence, an explanation. Every one starts “Firstly.” Every one...

12 days ago
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Why is a blank page safer than an attempt?

She knew it. That was the frustrating part.

A Year 10 pupil, mid-way through a mock. In class the week before she’d explained the causes of the 2014 Somerset Levels floods better than anyone in the room. Her plan for the 9-mark question wa...

16 days ago
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Is it really a writing problem?

The second waterfall pupil got there in the end. With a bit of help (“What happens to the soft rock?” “Faster or slower?”) he talked his way through the whole process, and we parted on good terms.

Then he wrote it down:

“The waterfall ero...

17 days ago
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Why does it read like they’re talking?

Here’s a fairly typical answer from a Year 9 pupil asked to explain how a waterfall forms:

“the soft rock erodes faster and then the hard rock sticks out and then it falls down and it moves back and that makes a gorge”

There’s a lot to li...

19 days ago
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    I am a former HMI and was Ofsted's National Lead for Geography. Before that I was a teacher for nearly 20 years. I now work in school support and am a freelance writer and speaker.

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