The most important unit…

This week the Caldwell article and PowerPoint arrived so I thought I’d blog the most important sentence for me from the presentation, in his own words. It’s a critical point. The student is the most important unit of organisation – not the classroom, not the school, and not the school system – and there are [...]

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Finland Rules!

It’s great to see that ACER’s fetish with all things FINLAND continues, as illustrated nicely in today’s Education Age article by Caroline Milburn (not online yet) I agree with the basic premise of the article, that it’s a focus on quality TEACHING, not TESTING that is likely to lead to improved student learning and that [...]

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