article_snippet.sent: Carl Hendrick, head of learning and research at Wellington College, Berkshire, has attacked the ‘tidal wave of guff’ in classrooms.
article_snippet.sent: ‘missives in mediocrity’ often tell pupils to ‘live your dream’ and ‘you can do it’
article_snippet.sent: and ‘be all that you can be’.
article_snippet.sent: But the glossy notices are ‘often reductively misinterpreted as “you can achieve anything if you believe”’.
article_snippet.sent: Carl Hendrick argues that schools should concentrate on boosting pupils’ confidence by teaching schools well and providing ‘clear and achievable paths to academic success’.
article_snippet.sent: ‘sit alongside a set of approaches that may well be doing more harm than good’.
article_snippet.sent: Carl Hendrick argues that schools should concentrate on boosting pupils’ confidence by teaching schools well and providing ‘clear and achievable paths to academic success’.
article_snippet.sent: Above, a stock image of three confident pupils .
article_snippet.sent: I am not telling you it is going to be easy, but I am telling you it is going to be worth it.