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Rector of Berwickshire High School | Author: Power Up Your Pedagogy; The Teaching Delusion trilogy; TES columnist | Next Level Educational: trainer & consultant

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From August 2024, I will be available to support the professional development of teachers & school leaders, specialising in: 🔴Pedagogy 🟠Curriculum 🟡Assessment 🟢Leadership 🔵Pedagogical coaching If this is of interest, please get in touch:

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I am delighted to have been appointed Headteacher of Berwickshire High School in the Scottish Borders! It is a huge honour. I am tremendously excited about taking up post in August and working with students, staff and parents in the Berwickshire community.

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Schools have been asking to see a copy of Berwickshire High School’s Lesson Evaluation Toolkit. It’s included below. Remember: it’s a reflective tool, not a tick-list. You can read about how to develop one for your school, and how best to use it, in The Teaching Delusion book.

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‘The most effective form of differentiation is through responsive teaching - preparing for the top and supporting pupils to get there, rather than deciding in advance which pupils will perform which tasks.’ Spot on, @MaryMyatt .

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At what point is the penny going to drop in Scotland that schools without any consequences for poor behaviour are very unlikely to offer rich learning environments for students or happy places of work for staff? (And that restorative conversations alone often aren’t enough.)

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Today, Berwickshire High School appointed a Principal Teacher: Pedagogy. I am tremendously excited about the impact this is going to have on our professional learning culture, and teaching practice across our school.

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@daisychristo For anyone interested, here’s a snapshot of what ‘The Teaching Delusion 2’ says about the Scottish curriculum👇 “This is not a curriculum. The vagueness and ambiguity of the statements are prohibitive to anyone understanding what, specifically, students should be learning.”

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📱Interval in Berwickshire High School: no mobile phones. 📱Classrooms: no mobile phones. 📱Corridors & transitions: no mobile phones. Three and a half years after it was implemented, our ‘mobile phone free school’ policy continues to work really well:

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We take professional reading and discussion very seriously in Berwickshire High School. Every teacher and school leader engages with this on a weekly or fortnightly basis. Why? Because, to quote a teacher, ‘it’s mind-expanding’. It helps us get better and better at what we do.

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I’ve had a few people get in touch asking about the remit of Berwickshire High School’s new Principal Teacher: Pedagogy. Here it is:

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Berwickshire High School’s policy on mobile phones: simple, practical and effective.

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One year on from the review visit by HMIe that led to the monitoring of Berwickshire High School being signed over to the local authority, the progress our school has continued to make has resulted in HMIe disengaging completely. We are tremendously proud of this result 😊

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Berwickshire High School has been a ‘mobile-phone free school’ for almost 4 years. Our approach is very clear and simple: mobile phones aren’t to be seen, heard or used at any time whilst in the building. It works really well.

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Berwickshire High School’s Professional Learning Library - looking good!

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Exciting news! @MrGoodwin23 has produced a superb new poster that summaries key messages from the Pedagogical Delusions chapters in ‘The Teaching Delusion 2: Teaching Strikes Back’. It’s available here as a free, downloadable PDF:

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I’m part of a panel debating the Scottish curriculum at The Scottish Learning Festival tomorrow. It’s being streamed online. If you’re a teacher or school leader in Scotland, I hope you can make it along! Some thoughts to get us started:

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The Importance of A Knowledge-Based Curriculum

How important is your school’s curriculum in determining student outcomes? Does it matter if students who go to different schools or who are in different classes experience different curricula? Let…

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Bloom’s Taxonomy is commonly talked about in schools, but it’s also commonly misunderstood. The base of the pyramid is just as important as the top. As we teach students new things, we need to work our way up. We can’t get to ‘higher-order’ without developing ‘lower-order’ first.

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Having led Berwickshire High School as headteacher the past 4 years, I am excited to be taking a year’s career break to focus on training and consultancy work with teachers and school leaders. If you’re interested in working with me, please get in touch:

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Misunderstandings about what ‘active learning’ is - and isn’t - could be avoided if we talk about ‘COGNITIVELY active learning’ instead. Students learn best when they THINK about specific things. ‘Cognitively’ helps capture that and addresses ‘moving around’ misinterpretations.

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For interest, Berwickshire High School’s Mobile Phones Policy. It has been very effective.

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A huge team effort to get our school to the place it is today. We’ve got here by focusing on the right thing, in the right way. The ‘right thing’ is TEACHING & LEARNING. The ‘right way’ is HIGH-QUALITY PROFESSIONAL LEARNING.

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'Sense of direction' helps turn Berwickshire High School around

Inspectors see progress at a secondary previously rated "weak" in most of its quality indicators.

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Published today by ⁦ @tes ⁩: 8 key points for heads to improve behaviour in schools

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8 key ways for heads to improve school behaviour

Nothing is more destructive to classroom learning than poor student behaviour, says Scottish head Bruce Robertson

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At Berwickshire High School, we take pride in the quality of professional development we offer. This year, every teacher has a Professional Learning Folder to support our approach to Pedagogical Coaching. EVERY TEACHER is a coach and EVERY TEACHER has a coach. It’s very exciting!

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Everyone at Berwickshire High School is delighted by the letter summarising the recent visit by inspectors: Highlights include recognition that teaching & learning have improved ‘considerably’ and praise for our ‘high-quality professional learning’ offer.

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We have developed an ‘Interactive Professional Learning Toolkit’ to support teachers develop specific elements of pedagogy. Well worth a look! Available here:

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4 ideas for developing your school’s professional learning culture: 1️⃣ Appoint a PT Pedagogy 2️⃣ Invest in a Professional Learning Library 3️⃣ Ring-fence time in your Working Time Agreement & calendar for weekly professional learning 4️⃣ Support peer observation & coaching

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If Scotland wants to get serious about closing attainment gaps, we need to get serious about developing a high-quality, knowledge-based curriculum. What we have currently isn’t a national curriculum. What’s being taught varies wildly from school to school, fuelling inequality.

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If you’re interested, I’ve written a piece that’s included in today’s @thetimes article on Scottish education: ‘Why I Give The Scottish Curriculum 3/10’

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Absolutely delighted to have found my book, Power Up Your Pedagogy, in ⁦ @Waterstones ⁩, Edinburgh! I’m so happy, I might even buy it!

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It’s Berwickshire High School Pedagogy Conference day! We’re really excited about the day ahead #BHSPedagogy

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Following really nice feedback from this afternoon’s session for Scottish Borders, if there’s interest in it, I would be happy to re-run ‘Power Up Your Curriculum’ as an online webinar. ✏️Knowledge vs skills ✏️Issues in Scotland ✏️5Cs of a content-rich curriculum Let me know.

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If senior leaders in Scottish education started talking more about the curriculum as SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & EXPERIENCES, as opposed to broad ideological concepts that are too vague to have any practical value, we MIGHT start to see the improvements we’re all aiming for.

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Published in this week’s @TES …

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8 key ways for heads to improve school behaviour

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We are delighted and proud to have been awarded the GTCS Excellence In Professional Learning Award today. Congratulations and thank you to everyone involved in the work and life of Eyemouth High School. This really is a great achievement.

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If you’re in the process of writing your school or team Improvement Plan for next session, consider using the PACE model to help guide your focus: 🔴 Pedagogy 🔴 Attainment 🔴 Curriculum 🔴 Ethos This has been very useful for Berwickshire High School the past few years👇

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A super article about the latest PISA data and the Scottish curriculum by Professor Lindsay Paterson from The University of Edinburgh: Nice to be referenced alongside @daisychristo and @DavidDidau . ‘Knowledge is empowering.’

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PISA 2022 in Scotland: declining attainment and growing social inequality - Lindsay Paterson -...

The headlines for Scottish education from the latest round of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) are dismaying. In all three subject

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Berwickshire High School’s new ‘Interactive Professional Learning Toolkit’, published today, and freely available:

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Just over 2 weeks until the publication of my new book with @ImpactWales 😊 Published by @JohnCattEd , ‘Power Up Your Pedagogy: The Illustrated Handbook of Teaching’ is available here:

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I’ve had a few people get in touch following the @ScotEd2020 event yesterday to say the concept of a ‘teaching-learning gap’ really resonated. I talk about it in ‘The Teaching Delusion’ book, and I wrote a blog post about it on theteachingdelusion website:

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The Teaching-Learning Gap

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‘Power Up Your Pedagogy: The Illustrated Handbook of Teaching’, the new book by Bruce Robertson and Finola Wilson, published by @JohnCattEd , is released on Friday 10th March 2023. Available here:

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Some powerful messages to think about from ⁦ @tombennett71 ⁩ about behaviour in schools. A great presentation. #rEDAberdeen

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What a fantastic day! The Berwickshire High School Pedagogy Conference 2023 has been a roaring success 😊 Superb talks from Tom Sherrington & Derek Huffman. The buzz in the room was palpable. I’ve lost track of how many of the 160 delegates told me how inspired they were.

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After months of planning, we are excited to be launching our new Pedagogical Coaching initiative today in Berwickshire High School to support teachers with the continuous development of their practice.

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Professional reading is key to improving leadership and teaching. Recently, staff in Eyemouth High School have been reading and discussing books by @lucy_crehan , @teacherhead , @Doug_Lemov , @MaryMyatt , @daisychristo & @C_Hendrick . To quote one teacher: “they’re mind-expanding”.

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A particular highlight in the Berwickshire High School inspection letter: ‘Teachers have a much improved, shared understanding of what high quality learning and teaching looks like by engaging in high-quality professional learning.’

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It’s been great to collaborate with @MrGoodwin23 on these two posters: ‘Pedagogical Delusions’ & ‘Pedagogical Principles’. They’re designed to support teachers and school leaders with teaching and learning development in schools. Download for free here:

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What a day! #BHSPedagogy

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As discussed with @KateJones_teach on her @TTRadio2021 show this morning, this is Berwickshire High School’s Professional Learning Library. Invest in your staff to invest in your students.

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Great to see such a super reaction to @MrGoodwin23 ’s new Pedagogical Delusions poster, based on chapters from The Teaching Delusion 2 book 😊 The free, downloadable poster is available here: The book is available to order here:

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‘The Teaching Delusion: Why Teaching In Our Schools Isn’t Good Enough (And How We Can Make It Better)’ 24.01.20 @JohnCattEd

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To the person in the @bbcquestiontime audience who said one of the issues with the Scottish curriculum is that it is ‘too prescriptive’, that is the very OPPOSITE of what is wrong with it. A lack of prescription and specific detail is one of the main issues with the 3-15 phase.

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Another superb professional learning session led by Berwickshire High School’s Principal Teacher of Pedagogy. We are focusing on the ‘behaviour management curriculum’, guided by key messages from @tombennett71 and @Doug_Lemov . ‘Taught, not told’ is a powerful take-away.

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“‘Is your lesson worth behaving for?’ is an expression I have heard more than once. Every time I do, I can feel my blood start to boil. It’s not about whether a lesson is ‘worth’ behaving for or not: students should be expected to behave in every lesson they attend.” - TTD2

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A selection of initiatives Berwickshire High has introduced to develop our strong professional learning culture: ✅ Principal Teacher of Pedagogy ✅ Well-stocked CPD library ✅ Professional reading at whole-school and team levels ✅ Staff-led workshops ✅ Pedagogical coaching

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Last night, Berwickshire High School held a ‘The Science Of How We Learn’ event for parents. Led by our PT Pedagogy and me, we were talking about working memory, long-term memory, retrieval practice and active revision. You can watch a recording here:

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Thanks to everyone who has been in touch with such positive comments about the poster @MrGoodwin23 and I have produced to support teachers and leaders develop teaching and learning in schools. It’s great to know so many people are finding it so useful 😊

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The Power Up Your Pedagogy book launch is ready to kick off!

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Schools in Scotland: are you aware of Scottish Online Lessons? Certainly worth a look as a support to students and schools.

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Delighted to announce that Tom Sherrington ( @teacherhead ) will be the keynote speaker at the Berwickshire High School Pedagogy Conference 2023! Save the date: Saturday 18th November. It’s going to be superb 😊

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A quote from one of our middle leaders at today’s Pedagogy Workshop: ‘The best thing that’s happen to me as a teacher is to start doing professional reading. My teaching is so much better as result. I now can’t believe some of the things I was doing - and not doing - previously.’

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Looking for some videos to help make your pedagogy even better than it is already? Look no further than the Berwickshire High School Pedagogy Channel!

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Everyone at Berwickshire High School is delighted about this front page news story about our school. A huge achievement and a great team effort.

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Want to win a signed copy of Power Up Your Pedagogy? Just RETWEET THIS TWEET. Winner drawn 20.12.21. 🖌The book that keeps on giving…truly remarkable - Kate Jones ✏️Superb - Tom Sherrington 🖍One of the best practical guides a teacher or school leader can have - Carl Hendrick

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Visiting Skara Brae ahead of presenting to 350 teachers in Kirkwall, Orkney, tomorrow 😊

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Berwickshire High School’s Professional Learning Library. We’re well stocked with a great range of ⁦ @JohnCattEd ⁩ books! Investing in staff professional learning is central to what we do.

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Delighted to have appointed to Berwickshire High School’s new middle leadership position: Principal Teacher of Pedagogical Coaching. Working closely alongside our existing Principal Teacher of Pedagogy, our professional learning offer is going from strength to strength 😊

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Does anyone else feel their blood pressure start to rise when they keep reading statements like this about schooling in the press? ‘The present system relies too heavily on direct instruction and memorising… rather than teaching children the skills to succeed for themselves.’

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Delighted by this collaboration with @ImpactWales , and for the support of @JohnCattEd ! We think it should be a great support to teachers and school leaders across the country 😊

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Great to be part of such a brilliant ⁦ @researchEDScot1 ⁩ line-up today. Refreshing to be at an event with such a strong focus on teaching and learning. The quality of presentations from everyone was first class 😊

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Save the date: Thursday 9th November. Berwickshire High School will be offering a Showcase Day. Visitors will have the opportunity to learn about our approaches to developing: ✅Pedagogy ✅Curriculum ✅Behaviour ✅Leadership ✅Professional learning Further details next week 😊

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Happy Birthday to The Teaching Delusion! 🥳 1 year-old today! 🎂🎉 Thank you to everyone who’s read it and promoted it. I’ve been delighted to hear about the impact it’s having in so many schools! Published by @JohnCattEd , it’s available here:

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I saw a recent tweet saying memorisation isn’t learning. Of course memorisation is learning! If you’ve memorised that 2x2=4, you have learned that. Ultimately, we want learning to go far beyond memorisation. However, memorisation can be a crucial first step & long-term support.

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My article in today’s ⁦⁦⁦⁦ @tes ⁩, exploring ‘Pedagogical Principles’:

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Schools in Scotland often lose sight of their core purpose, argues Bruce Robertson, who sets out three basic pedagogical principles to reset the way that we teach

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A key difference between ‘management’ and ‘leadership’: keeping the boat afloat vs going somewhere in the boat.

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‘Teach Like A Champion 3.0’ on ‘differentiation’👇 It’s not about different tasks and learning goals for different students. It’s about teaching INTERACTIVELY and RESPONSIVELY, so we can support and challenge every student in our class to achieve common learning goals.

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If we put too much emphasis on students ‘leading their own learning’ or we design lessons so different students engage in different tasks, all we do is create learning & achievement gaps. As much as possible, we should be trying to keep everyone’s learning together in a class.

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Here’s a sketchnote about why questioning is such an important component of great teaching👇 It’s taken from ‘Power Up Your Pedagogy: The Illustrated Handbook of Teaching’, a collaboration with @ImpactWales Available here:

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Pedagogical Coaching in Berwickshire High: ✅Every teacher HAS a coach; every teacher IS a coach. ✅Teachers choose their own pairs. ✅Teachers choose their own pedagogical focus. ✅Observation & discussion 3x a term for each teacher. ✅Practise in between. ✅Impact? HUGE!

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I am delighted to announce that the new @JohnCattEd book I have been developing in collaboration with @ImpactWales is due for release on 10th March 2023. We are very excited about it! Available for pre-order here:

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Gearing up for tomorrow’s Berwickshire High School Pedagogy Conference. What a day it’s going to be! ⁦ @teacherhead ⁩

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In a recent visit to Berwickshire High School, inspectors reported: ‘The quality and consistency of learning, teaching and assessment has improved considerably across the school.’ I’m very happy to chat with anyone interested in how we’ve achieved this.

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Great to see Berwickshire High School’s Pedagogy Channel and video about remote learning getting national coverage!

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Some ideas from ‘The Teaching Delusion 2’ to help teachers & school leaders find time for things that are more important: 📝Ditch teacher comments in reports to parents 📝In Scotland, abandon BGE (3-15) moderation 📝Ring-fence time for discussions about curriculum & pedagogy

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It’s World Teachers Day! In recognition of this, and of the incredible hard work of Berwickshire High School teachers and support staff over the course of the term to date, we’re putting on a special cake break 🧁 Enjoy everyone 😊 #WorldTeachersDay2023

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Great to have so many teachers and school leaders from schools across Scotland attending our Berwickshire High School Showcase Day today! We are delighted that delegates found the day so useful 😊 Invest in your staff to invest in your students.

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Our first twilight session at Berwickshire High School focused on pedagogy. We recapped the science of how we learn, before moving into an exploration of Specific vs Non-specific Teaching. This has laid the foundations for the development of our new Lesson Evaluation Toolkit.

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Berwickshire High School’s new website has a dedicated ‘Professional Learning’ area for staff. You can view it here: Whilst still in developmental stages, this includes our new Lesson Evaluation Toolkit and the first video from our ‘Pedagogy Channel’.

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Everyone involved in the work of Eyemouth High School should be very proud of our HMIe Inspection Report, which highlights our “very positive climate for learning” and staff who “take part in considerable professional learning... using carefully-selected educational research.”

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The future of teaching, in safe hands!

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Great to see Berwickshire High School’s approach to developing a knowledge-based curriculum being recognised and praised by Professor Lindsay Paterson from The University of Edinburgh👇

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Delighted to see that ‘Power Up Your Pedagogy: The Illustrated Handbook of Teaching’ has made it to #1 ! Thanks to everyone who’s pre-ordered it 😊 Available here: @ImpactWales @JohnCattEd

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It’s Power Up Your Pedagogy release day! If you get your copy, please us know. We’d love to see photos of it out and about in the world 😊 Available here:

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We have a new video on the Berwickshire High School ‘Pedagogy Channel’. It’s about learning intentions. Check it out here:

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A wonderful article about Berwickshire High School in today’s Border Telegraph! Well done everyone 😊 Berwickshire High School reputation has ‘gone through the roof’ | Border Telegraph

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Reputation of Borders high school has ‘gone through the roof’, meeting hears

THE reputation of a Borders high school has ‘gone through the roof’ as a result of a transformation programme, a meeting heard this week.

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Every Monday and Thursday lunchtime, Berwickshire High School’s Lead Specialist in Pedagogy, Derek Huffman, offers voluntary staff workshops on pedagogy. Today’s was about a comparison between interleaving and spacing in practise.

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“If there is a problem with behaviour, focus on it at the expense of (almost) everything else until it is fixed. This means that other agendas will need to go on hold. All schools, regardless of context, can and should have high standards of student behaviour.” - TTD2

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The emphasis on HOW content should be taught in ‘Experiences & Outcomes’ is another example of the problems with them. ‘Investigating’ & ‘researching’ usually aren’t the best ways to learn new knowledge & skills, certainly not in the early stages. Specify content, not pedagogy.

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One of the things we were discussing at the Berwickshire High School Showcase Day on Thursday was the significant improvement in student behaviour across the school. If you are interested, here’s what inspectors said in the original inspection compared with their revisit👇

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Well done Eyemouth High School! GTCS Excellence in Professional Learning Award winners 2019.

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