Reading Decline, Effective Teachers, Exam Doom: The Weekly Review

On The Weekly Review, panellists, Kathryn Taylor, John Gibbs and Lianne Lax discuss hot topics in the week's news with host, Paul Hazzard.  Show production by Lianne Lax.

This week's stories:

Report finds ‘shocking and dispiriting’ fall in children reading for pleasure
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/nov/05/report-fall-in-children-reading-for-pleasure-national-literacy-trust The struggle to spot (and develop) effective teachers
https://www.tes.com/magazine/teaching-learning/general/how-to-spot-and-develop-effective-teachers Phillipson to ask schools to end exam ‘tunnel vision’ and look to wellbeing
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/nov/06/phillipson-to-ask-schools-to-end-exam-tunnel-vision-and-look-to-wellbeing

Shows Reviewed:

• Self Affirmation : The Saturday Breakfast Show with Darren Lester
• Why doesn't anyone want to be a senior leader anymore?: The Morning Break with Carl Smith
• Classroom craze: Trends that transformed or tumbled?: The Late Late Show with Danielle Walley
• Armed with only a whiteboard and a pen - Teaching without tech: The Sunday Social with Toria Bono