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The Student-Led Classroom Blog - Join me as I explore the creation of self-autonomous, primary school learning environments


The Job Hunt - Five key considerations
The task of finding and applying for teaching positions can be an incredibly tricky road to navigate. Identifying a future workplace that...

Daniel R Wilson
Mar 12, 20233 min read
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The Student-led Parents' Evening
It's been a while since I last blogged in relation to student-led learning. Along with Covid, came a hundred-and-one barriers that have...

Daniel R Wilson
May 31, 20223 min read
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The most productive way to start your day!
Back in 2019, I had a brainwave. I had been developing my own morning resources, for the previous five years, and wanted to share them...

Daniel R Wilson
Nov 13, 20212 min read
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Morning Challenge goes Full-Screen!
Hi everyone - thanks for your continued support and usage of the site. I'm really happy that I've been able to help save you some time...

Daniel R Wilson
Nov 28, 20202 min read
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Non-contact Peer Editing
Sharing resources has been outlawed and the peer-editing of work had become a thing of the past. That was until I had a little brain wave...

Daniel R Wilson
Oct 27, 20202 min read
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SOLE Lessons Go Live!
An exciting update more than a blog post. I previously blogged about the amazing research and work, undertaken by Sugata Mitra, in regard...

Daniel R Wilson
Mar 31, 20201 min read
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The Student-Led Home School!
I thought it was time to post in relation to the current situation that many of us find ourselves in. With the Coronavirus circulating,...

Daniel R Wilson
Mar 26, 20205 min read
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To carousel or Not to carousel, that is the question...
I’ve read a lot of comments in support of whole-class guided reading in the past few months, but with my student-led hat on, I thought I...

Daniel R Wilson
Feb 28, 20205 min read
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The Secret Student
Another ramble through the backstreets of Twitter, last week, led me to a post by @Mr_S_Primary (Sam Stewart). He briefly discussed one...

Daniel R Wilson
Feb 28, 20203 min read
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Silent Teacher Day
The idea of 'Silent Teacher Day' was one which I stumbled over and have run with ever since. Everything about it hit the right notes with...

Daniel R Wilson
Feb 28, 20206 min read
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I'm a SOLE man...
The concept of SOLE, or 'Self Organised Learning Environments' were the brain-child of Sugata Mitra. "In 1999, Sugata Mitra’s pioneering...

Daniel R Wilson
Feb 28, 20203 min read
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The BIG Class Improvement Audit
It was late on Wednesday night, that I did my regular trawl of Twitter; in search of innovative and enthralling ways in which I could...

Daniel R Wilson
Feb 28, 20203 min read
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The Role of the Peer Mentor
Previously, I discussed the importance of children being aware of, and comfortable with, their own abilities. The realisation of...

Daniel R Wilson
Feb 28, 20203 min read
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Much More Than Milk Monitors
"It's like making the div kid at school milk monitor, no one respects it!" - A favourite quote of mine from the UK version of the office,...

Daniel R Wilson
Feb 28, 20202 min read
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The Morning Challenge
Many of us manage a partially student-led classroom without, perhaps, even having considered it. I've seen the concept of the morning...

Daniel R Wilson
Feb 28, 20203 min read
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Dynamic Seating!
Wouldn't it be brilliant if, as teachers, we didn't have to worry about seating arrangements; the constant challenges of pairing students...

Daniel R Wilson
Feb 28, 20203 min read
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Learning By Example
How better to introduce a group to the concept of learning from the front, than by allowing two of my most confident and able student...

Daniel R Wilson
Feb 28, 20202 min read
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The Wake Up Call
An introduction to the concept of the student led classroom, and the factors which influenced me to put ideas into action. In the...

Daniel R Wilson
Feb 28, 20207 min read
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