I have been thinking about learning moments all my life, but I didn’t name them until earlier this year. Learning moments are catalysts for learning and the development of independence, interdependence and connection to the world. They are also a way of personalising learning for everyone. A learning moment is…

After my last post, it looks like I have a question, ‘How do we make every student high performing?’. I don’t know the answer to this question, but I like a challenge. I am going to put forward some ideas and connect them with the research and work of others…

When I was at Primary school I was a ‘high performing’’ student. I didn’t know what ‘high performing’ meant. I loved school. Around the age of 13, I my teachers labelled me as being an ‘arts’ student. My maths got worse and I soon fell out of love with science …

Back in September I published a story about my plan to start a global classroom network. We now have an ever expanding network of 18 classrooms across 13 schools covering countries including the UK, Tanzania, USA, Ecuador, Brazil, Russia, Italy and Spain. Here are a few ideas for how those…

Inspired by Peace Day (two days ago, September 21st), which was marked at ICS, I have decided to develop a global classroom network. I probably need to write a manifesto at some stage, but first I thought I would reflect on what I am planning, and why. If you are…

I’m pretty new to blogging, and I’m curious about the power it has, so this is a type of experiment. Can Medium significantly increase the ideas we have in our school? Please read on, and make sure you get to the end, as that is where I need your input. …

I have reflected over the past few weeks about the teacher and his/her role. I have concluded that there is great value in teachers taking a back seat (what I refer to as ‘Heads On’ teaching). As a fun way of developing this hypothesis we have decided to carry out…

I have spent the beginning of the week visiting classrooms, reflecting on the teacher as facilitator, and developing the idea of ‘Heads On’ teaching (as originally thought up here). I feel here that I should outline some of the characteristics of (good) ‘Heads On’ teaching. The teacher is generating interest…

The idea of the teacher as facilitator is not new. However, I wanted to consider what this looks like in relation to my research into ‘it’. I was thinking of calling this post ‘Shut It’, reiterating the view that effective learning environments are usually those in which the learners are…