The triangulation of speaking to colleagues, being in lessons and looking at students’ work is crucial to appreciating the quality of the curriculum.
When looking in books recently, I have seen two things which have made me think. Firstly, the obsession with getting students to write down definitions before they understand them. Ben Rogers explains brilliantly in this blog post why it is better to ask students to write down definitions once they have a good grasp of what the definition means.
