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“Who in the world am I?”
“Ah that’s the great puzzle.”
Alice in Wonderland
This summer, accommodating the implications of the reformed A levels and new GCSEs, I felt (like Alice hurtling down the rabbit hole), that “it would be so nice if something made sense for a change”.
Teachers in recent times have seen the wonderland of learning overrun by new directives where new curriculum, assessments and examinations appear and disappear with the manic speed of the white rabbit.
The amount of national change can mean that staffrooms sneak beyond the rueful into the wearily sceptical or even the cynical. Energy and inspiration can harden into criteria-meeting chains, bite-size learning and endless assessment.
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