Posted by: mimanifesto on: March 1, 2011
Judging by what we read in the papers at the moment, Scotland is not a great place to be growing up in at the moment. Drinking, drugs, and dangerous sexual activity are endemic in our society. Knife and gun crime is the norm amongst many children who roam the streets in feral gangs without a [...]
Posted by: mimanifesto on: February 14, 2011
It sometimes strikes me, as I speak and network with other education professionals that we are rather insular in our approaches. Of course, many folk I’ve worked with went from school, to university, and straight into teaching as their chosen career, and have been teachers and educationalists ever since. However, certainly over the past few [...]
Posted by: mimanifesto on: November 9, 2008
When I was thinking about these points and those covered in the series, I wrote that this was somewhat of a watershed time for me. I’m going to expand a little on this at the end of this post. First though, my final thoughts on LTS and LA central teams. A classroom teacher writing a [...]
Posted by: mimanifesto on: May 8, 2008
I had a great day today, you know the sort of day I mean. One where all the thoughts and debates you’ve had about the way you’d like to work are vindicated by seeing someone else actually putting this into practice. I visited an upper secondary school in Sipoo, a town to the west of [...]
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