Intelligent Accountability by David Didau

Intelligent Accountability by David Didau

Uncertainty is a fact of life. You can never know enough to make perfect decisions. Understanding this helps us balance an awareness of our tendency towards overconfidence with an acceptance of our own fallibility. The book discusses two opposed models of school improvement: the deficit model (which assumes problems are someone's fault) and the surplus model (which assumes problems are unintended systemic flaws). By aligning ourselves to a surplus model we can create a system of Intelligent Accountability. The principles that make this possible are trust, accountability and fairness. While we thrive when trusted, unless someone cares about - and is holding us to account - for what we do, we're unlikely to be our best. Some teachers deserve more trust and require less scrutiny than others, but in order to satisfy the demands of equality we end up treating all teachers as equally untrustworthy. The more we trust teachers, the more autonomy they should be given. To pursue a system of fair inequality we must accept that autonomy must be earned.

David Didau is a freelance writer, blogger, speaker, trainer, and author who works for Ormiston Academies Trust as a Senior Lead Practitioner for English. In 2011, he began his award-winning blog, The Learning Spy, to communicate the frustrations and limits of regular teachers, to document the successes and failures in his own classroom, and to synthesize his years of teaching experience through the prism of educational science and cognitive psychology. Since then, he's spoken at a number of national conferences, impacted Ofsted, and collaborated with the Department of Education to look into ways to lessen teachers' workload.

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ISBN 13	9781913622275
ISBN 10	1913622274
Title	Intelligent Accountability
Author	David Didau
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Hodder Education
Year published	2020-11-06
Number of pages	220
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