Naughty Thoughts & Spells
A bubbling cauldron of opinions, provocations, musings, and mildly rebellious educational insight — with a pinch of science, storytelling, and a dash of mischief.
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Welcome to Naughty Thoughts & Spells — where curiosity gets cheeky, and ideas refuse to behave.
I will share thoughts that whisper to me while I’m sketching, writing, teaching, or sipping tea and watching the world of learning do its strange, wonderful dance.
These aren’t polished proclamations…
They’re sparks.
Tiny revolutions.
Friendly provocations with a glint in the eye.
Some are educational spells.
Some are philosophical potions.
Some things teachers say quietly in the staffroom when no one else is listening.
You’re most welcome to explore, ponder, and giggle —
and if any of these thoughts nudge you toward your own ideas .......
That’s social magic doing its work.
Education Trends or Fashions
In education, trends behave like potions left too long on the boil — they bubble up, spill over, disappear, and then reappear years later
as if someone had just reinvented the idea with more glitter.
But real teaching has always been a blend of grounded practice and quiet magic - an art.
No single trend ever saves the day.
What matters is whether it helps children understand and connect, not if it comes in a shiny bottle with a cool acronym.
If a trend supports curiosity, connection, and competence…
wonderful.
If it’s just another spell someone wants teachers to chant…well, I keep my broom close by for a quick exit.
Views About Learning
Learning Is Not a Performance — It’s a Slow, Beautiful Spell
It's easy to believe that learning is something to be displayed,
performed, ranked, or be a competition (who can sparkle the brightest today?).
Learning is really a quiet spell —
a slow, steady transformation that happens in the mind long after the lesson ends.
Children learn best when they feel safe enough to be wrong,
curious enough to ask,
and brave enough to keep going when the answer isn’t obvious.
Real learning is not a performance.
It’s magic that happens when no one is looking.
Everyone thinks they know best!
Because Everyone Has Sat in a Classroom, watched teachers, and judged them!
Teaching looks easy because good teachers are like graceful witches - smooth on the surface, but casting twenty spells at once while pretending it’s effortless.
Everyone has opinions about teaching: what teachers should do, what they’re not doing, and they could do it better. Mmmm.....
But teaching requires
science, art, instinct, courage, emotional intelligence, and more patience than a cat waiting at a mouse hole.
If you think teaching is easy, you’ve never tried to get 25 small humans
to learn something at the same time, without anyone setting something on fire
— metaphorical or otherwise.