Anyone that works in schools understands the immense challenges facing young people today. Mental health issues and school attendance are at the forefront of everyone’s minds. Absenteeism is considered such a large issue that in England there is a national drive to improve it, and a TeacherTapp survey from last year shows clearly that teachersContinue reading “Tip of the iceberg or small subgroup? Are ‘authoritarian rules’ causing mental health issues?”
Category Archives: Research
Trauma-Informed or Totally Impossible?
Recently there was a question on Teachertapp that asked about Trauma Informed Practice (TIP). I thought this was an unfair question, because (at this moment in time) I think it is impossible to know the “the connection between trauma and its impact on the brain’s biology, to understand why children have the way they do”. Continue reading “Trauma-Informed or Totally Impossible?”
To set or not to set, does the evidence add up?
A while ago I got myself into a discussion about setting and the EEF. I don’t usually do this, but setting is really interesting for me. At one point in the discussion we were having on Twitter, I (perhaps foolishly) used the term context to suggest that the EEF findings were not applicable everywhere. ProfContinue reading “To set or not to set, does the evidence add up?”
Musings of a DR 