In early 2015, I separated my personal and school Twitter accounts. I had just started reading more education blogs and decided that my friends from school and university wouldn’t be as interested in my thoughts on curriculum and assessments as much as they were my rants about the England rugby team (who am I kidding, is anyone really interested in that either!?). I wanted to join the conversations on Twitter about effective education. Ok, so it can be a little tribalistic at times, people’s views can be a rather entrenched and there are times when we’re all pulling our collective hair out, but it’s a great platform for finding out about different ideas: practical suggestions for Teaching and Learning, leadership and culture, information about research and cognitive psychology, and overarching educational philosophies.
More recently, I’ve started to get an increasingly wide selection of blog suggestions from Teacher Tapp. If you’re a teacher and you’re not on Teacher Tapp yet…WHY NOT!? In their own words: "At 3:30pm each day, thousands of phones across the country buzz and our community of teachers spend a minute answering our questions about their work and learning from the short articles we give them. They do this so that we can all learn about teachers daily lives, views and the schools they work in. Join us to help give teachers a voice!" I’ve written before about Pocket, an amazing app that helps save posts on websites so that you can read them even when you’re offline and stores them in one central place. One of the other great features of Pocket is that it saves old articles in an archive and you can bookmark favourites. (The biggest drawback is that I save more than I actually have time to read!). The list below is a compilation of the posts I find myself going back to most; these are the posts that have been most influential in shaping my thinking. I have used my Pocket favourites to help me generate this list but there are no guarantees this list is comprehensive. There are certainly other posts that have been important in influencing me, not to mention books, conferences and tweets: you can find a list of some more these on the Recommendations page of this site. So, without any further ado , here are some of the most important blog posts I’ve read to date: (note, the formatting of this page works better on a computer rather than a phone).
This is by no means an exhaustive list and I'm regularly adding to it. Please tweet me or leave suggestions in the comments for other posts I should add to this list!
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