Preparing for a head of department post doesn’t only involve reading. Picture credit: Reading (cartoon), by Terry Freedman

The benefits of supply teaching...

March 13, 2022

… in preparation for a head of department post.

I don’t think I would go so far as to recommend supply teaching as a career option, even temporarily. However, if you have aspirations to lead your own department, and find yourself having to do supply work for a while, it’s not necessarily a bad situation to find yourself in.

Read the full article here:

The benefits of supply teaching

Recent book reviews

Review: Power Up, by Matthew Lane

This book looks at the maths concepts — and, to some extent, the physics concepts — hidden in popular video games.

Review: The Shortest History of AI

How is it that ChatGPT, Claude and other Al models appear to perform so well at certain complex tasks that some people become convinced that they're sentient — only for them to then promptly fail at simple tasks that even a child could handle?

Review: Teacher Geek

Every so often I like to take a look, or another look, at a book published a while ago, and today I’ve been looking at Teacher Geek, by Rachel Jones.

Review: Teach Fast

The book contains some interesting ideas.

A question of leadership

I have somewhat dichotomous views of this question of whether leaders make a difference, or much of a difference. I think my views can be classified as macro and micro.