Better Inset? - from 'training' to 'doing'
A few weeks ago, I posted an initial plan for an upcoming inset day . Thanks to the thinking prompted by writing the plan in the first place and the subsequent feedback and comments received through twitter, we've pretty much ditched it and gone to plan B. Here, I'll outline the changes we've made and the reasons behind them. Plan A: The original plan was for a morning carousel of training activities, followed by an afternoon of collaborative planning in faculties, ideally involving application of some of the ideas and training from earlier in the day. There's a logic here and I think we would have done it well; the proposed topics were interesting and relevant, we have great people who would have worked hard to deliver them and I think our teachers would have, on the whole, had an enjoyable experience. There are significant limitations to this way of organising the time. The primary risk, I think, is the danger that the moment that term starts for real, the interest, i...