Archive for February 2014

Teaching can be such pleasure and extremely rewarding In my years of teaching at a grammar school and largely the top set and the sixth form in good comprehensive schools, teaching was a joy as the boys and girls were on the whole, very bright and it is such a delight to interact and lead…

The link between students’ behaviour and academic achievement is well established. A proof can be seen in the case of two prominent people in education in recent history. Sir William Atkinson took over Phoenix School in Hammersmith and Sir Michael Wilshaw’s record at Mossbourne Academy in east London. Both leaders were able to achieve seismic…