Courageous leadership and the school curriculum
Leadership coach and former headteacher Diana Osagie gives examples of her approach.
Blog posts by SSAT
How a frustrated teacher became an expert in educational psychology
Second post in the SSAT National Conference 2017: Illuminating learning blog series. Paul A Kirschner, Distinguished University Professor of educational psychology at the Open University of the Netherlands.
Refocusing assessment – making assessment work for your students
Alex Galvin, SSAT Senior Education Lead, writes… Back when I started teaching, assessment was pretty straightforward. Pieces of work were marked A-E and we recorded marks for certain extended pieces of work in a blue folder in the history work
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Celebrating exceptional education
Alex Galvin, SSAT Senior Education Lead, writes… The team at SSAT are in the privileged position of visiting a large number of schools every year. We know that despite the very real challenges that schools are currently facing, day in
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SSAT Manifesto 2017
25 things we’d like to see in a new government
Why you remember things people said, even a long time ago
Former teacher and SSAT editor Peter Chambers trawls through his personal and professional past to pick out the brief conversations that stick with you, often because they signal major change… You know how there are things people have said to
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Giving young people the motivation to pass their exams
Marcus Orlovksy stresses the need to help young people understand why they should learn things
Without advice and guidance, work experience isn’t worth much
Without advice and guidance, as Peter Chambers writes…
Fake news: the threat to young people and how it is being tackled
Students in schools encounter a staggering amount of information from social media. Adweek reports that the average social media user sees 285 pieces of content, totalling some 54,000 words, every day. By age 18, 88% of young adults regularly get
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Sue Williamson visits Richard Challoner School
And is blown away by what she found
