Authors

Thomas Rogers
All articles by Thomas Rogers
A teacher’s vision of education in the year 2030
16 December 2016
‘As educators, it’s worth considering that one throwaway remark can sometimes create its own legacy’
Teachers are in the privileged position of being able to positively change the trajectory of an idea every single day, says one teacher-writer
10 December 2016
‘Breathe it in: the sweet taste of victory - the culture of deep marking is dead. Now what else can we kill?’
Graded lesson observations and performance-related pay would be a good start, argues one teacher-writer
3 December 2016
‘The nightmare of graded lesson observations is ending, at last - and some good can come out of it’
Once they’re completely dead and buried, there might be something we can resuscitate which will genuinely help teachers’ personal professional development, argues one teacher-writer
25 November 2016
‘It’s too often forgotten by those who judge schools: it’s the students who fail exams, not the teachers’
The most painful thing anyone can say to a teacher is: “You’ve let your students down”. Ofsted must stop saying it, argues one teacher-writer
18 November 2016
‘Ofsted’s approach, in which “outcomes” trump everything, has driven a disastrous dive in teacher wellbeing’
The schools inspectorate must judge schools by the morale of their teaching staff and nothing else: everything else follows from that, says one teacher-writer
11 November 2016