Today the BEEB’s very own Mike Baker asks how the reluctant minority can be encouraged to stay on.
We have a great idea: why not ask 16+ boys and girls what they want to study and allow them to do it. Perhaps that why school is so unattractive to so many: they don’t get to choose! [...]
Peter Hyman hit the nail on the head today when mentioning how much painstaking research has been conducted into best practice in teaching. What he fails to mention is that, despite the wealth of material, there is no such thing as ‘good teaching’ only passing, cyclical fashions. The search for the perfect lesson is the [...]