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Michael Tidd
All articles by Michael Tidd
‘Will we have league tables for activity passports?’
How does the DfE manage to take something joyful like climbing a tree and turn it into red tape, asks Michael Tidd
7 January 2019
‘My new year’s resolution? Let’s ditch our worst education jargon’
It’s time to abandon ‘key stages’, ‘literacy’ and, worst of all, alliterative topic names, says Michael Tidd
2 January 2019
‘No one would benefit from no-notice inspections’
If Ofsted wants to know what a school is like when it’s not there, it must do one thing: ask the kids, says Michael Tidd
17 December 2018
These are the hardest weeks in the life of a teacher
All jobs have deadlines, but in schools, December is filled with them in the lead up to Christmas, writes Michael Tidd
10 December 2018
‘Why I’m in awe of infant teachers at Christmas’
Behind every nativity play is a teacher with vast reserves of Christmas cheer and resilience, writes Michael Tidd
4 December 2018
Writing genres don’t exist in real life, so why teach them?
The KS2 writing test was killed off long ago – so why, asks Michael Tidd, do simplistic writing genres live on?
28 November 2018