Exciting times for Teaching?
Is it just me or is there a growing sense of purpose in the profession at the moment, a feeling of a few things coming together at once? Recent blog-reading and what-not seems to suggest a happy alignment of factors which are converging to create particular momentum, such as: - teacher engagement with convincing, relevant research into the workings of the brain - (if you haven't read Daniel Willingham yet, probably best that you stop here, get on your bike, get to Waterstones, spend an afternoon with Why Students Don't Like School? , then come back to us) - Wilshaw's (admittedly debated and yet to be enacted) statements that teachers should be allowed autonomy of approach as professionals, and the restriction of top-down centralised directive-driven leadership at national level - the increasing use of twitter and social media to get professionals talking to one another, as seen through the increasing numbers of startlingly useful blogs, debates, TeachMeets, Pedagoos etc I k...