Teachers - your thoughts on this? (Essay help!)

[badgermonkey]

I'm planning an essay for my Master's course, and I want to write about the barrage of new initiatives that teachers face and how we have to adapt every time. I'll be looking at the last 20 years or so, since the start of the National Curriculum, I think, and I want particularly to comment on ideas that have been brought in with great fanfare and dropped later on, especially if they've been disproven or shown not to work (ahem, Brain Gym...). I'll also be writing about new schemes that are coming into play at the moment, like APP and topic-based learning.

I've been teaching 7 years and I can think of quite a few things myself, like the Lit + Num Strategies, learning styles, peer assessment, and, obviously, SATs, but I would really welcome examples from other people. I'm a secondary English teacher so often 'experimented' on with new ideas but I don't really get to see what goes on at Primary level. Any examples or opinions gratefully accepted!

Am I too late to add key skills, diplomas and performance management?

Had fun reading this from a few years back. I remember all that bullshit, I too had to teach Learning to Learn for an hour a week (we even had a set of textbooks for it and a LA specialist consultant on it= ££££) ...but if we thought it was bad then, well, little did we know...
I wonder if we can have some more fun adding all of the bollocks from the last five years, I'll start:
Intervention
British Values
SPAG
Ebacc
Progress8
FSM/Pupil Premium
Growth Mindset
The Pit

Reading this has really amused me.
Now it's time to add
Growth mindset
PLCs
PPEs
Progress 8

I think that evidence of a Growth Mindset mentality is rapidly filling the space in lesson plan pro formas where you used to have to show how you were planning to cater for multiple learning styles, from those who preferred to yodel their verbs through to the interpretative dance model of learning the preterite tense.

Blooms Taxonomy, allegedly dated, has popped up on management documents at both 6th form and primary levels in my area. You saw it here first...

We have to show how we've embedded maths/english in as many lessons as possible and also equality/diversity and other things (adult ed.... sorry learning...)