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Cambridge Primary Review - Your thoughts and reactions

The Primary Review is out, the same day as the New School Thinking conference - spooky. Leave your comments here... If you haven't visited…

Started by Charlie D in UncategorizedLatest Reply

Why are we told to teach in a way that is alien from understanding.

Is it me or has primary education become a tool in which we are required to persecute the children we are supposed to be educating. They ar…

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My ideal Primary (Elementary) School

Would be based on these three principles: School is where children learn how to find and trust their own internal locus of evaluation: Int…

Started by Charlie D in General

1 Dec 5, 2011
Reply by leora

Equipping Children as Effective learners

Brainwaves   The article above gives an overview of our work in enhancing learning outcomes for students of all ages. It is taken from the…

Started by David Hughes in General

0 Apr 25, 2011

We Are The People We've Been Waiting For

Has anyone watched We Are The People We've Been Waiting For? (It was free in the Guardian last Saturday, but it seems like you can still re…

Started by Rosie Sherry in General

0 Dec 3, 2009

Cambridge Primary Review - Your thoughts and reactions

The Primary Review is out, the same day as the New School Thinking conference - spooky. Leave your comments here... If you haven't visited…

Started by Charlie D in Uncategorized

2 Oct 16, 2009
Reply by Charlie D

Nick Kettles Ecologist article featuring LNS and draft conference paper on thinking, education and saving the world

Nick says we can circulate this along with a mention of the magazine link http://www.theecologist.org/ I've used Nick's article as a refer…

Started by james greyson in Uncategorized

1 Oct 3, 2009
Reply by james greyson

Teaching English as foreign language creatively

Hi There! I've been teaching English in french Primary schools for 10 years, and though I always tried to make lessons attractive and creat…

Started by brianne DELCOURT in Uncategorized

2 Sep 2, 2009
Reply by brianne DELCOURT

With so much information out there, what should we be teaching?

I've been pondering the value of knowledge, is there an essential body of it without which we don't function sucessfully as individuals and…

Started by Matthew Mills in Uncategorized

12 May 10, 2009
Reply by charlotte walker

Visual Literacy and Inclusive Education

Thank you for the opportunity to join you at New School Thinking. I'm currently involved in the development of a regeneration project in m…

Started by David Hughes in Uncategorized

0 Feb 14, 2009

The place of Unconditional Teaching in education, as researched and discussed by Alfie Kohn

Just wondering if any of you have come across the works of Alfie Kohn, American Educator and Author of books such as, "The Schools our Chil…

Started by Lara Price in Uncategorized

0 Feb 8, 2009

Why are we told to teach in a way that is alien from understanding.

Is it me or has primary education become a tool in which we are required to persecute the children we are supposed to be educating. They ar…

Started by Paula Black in Uncategorized

1 Dec 1, 2008
Reply by Sue Attard

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