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Oliver Beach
All articles by Oliver Beach
If we are only measuring educational success based on the ability to memorise facts, the Chinese method trumps the British. But what if we’re not?
What to conclude from the BBC’s educational experiment in Bohunt? It depends what you want from your pupils, argues one former Tough Young Teacher
19 August 2015
Opinion: ‘One study says teachers should be paid $300K a year. Perhaps that would boost our reputation’
Tough Young Teacher Oliver Beach marks three years in the classroom this week. Why, he wonders, is the reputation of teaching still so poor?
18 July 2015
Tough Young Teachers’ Oliver Beach hits back at Sir Michael Wilshaw
In a speech this afternoon, Ofsted boss Sir Michael Wilshaw condemned the media’s portrayal of teaching, claiming that he watched BBC Three’s Tough Young Teachers with “his head in his hands”. Here, one of the show’s stars offers his side of the story
18 June 2015
‘To build character, schools must give their pupils a growth mindset and a rounded education in the arts’
The former star of TV hit ‘Tough Young Teachers’ picks apart the current vogue for promoting ‘character education’
1 June 2015