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Inclusion

Decolonising The Curriculum

Knowledge is power but whose knowledge is it? asks Naheeda Maharasingam, head teacher Rathfern Primary School in Lewisham

  • 16 Apr
  • Sal McKeown
Professional Development

How To Remove Barriers To Learning For SEN Children – Lessons From Lockdown.

In th first of two articles, Alison Ekins draws from the detailed perceptions of parents and students with SEN in lockdown to identify and better understand barriers to learning.

  • 12 Apr 2021
  • 24mins
Creative Teaching & Learning

What Motivates Children To Read. Or Not?

Understanding what motivates children and adolescents to read , and how to encourage them to do more in school and at home, are perennial questions for educators and parents. Researcher Sarah MacGowan explains what she has found so far

  • 12 Apr 2021
  • 24mins
Leadership

Teacher Assessed Grades: A Q &A Session

Following the Government's announcement that formal exams including GCSEs and A-Levels have been cancelled for 2021, schools have been grappling with how best to support their learners and ensure that their grades are reasonable and fair. Emily Flower explores the complexities

  • 9 Apr 2021
  • 24mins

Knowledge Banks

Creative Teaching & Learning

Talking About Oracy: Effective Communication In The Classroom

There is a distinct difference between those schools that have chosen to encourage oracy strategies in their curricular, and those that have focused on skills for written assessments. By shining a light on the effective oracy practises, we can see the vital role of oral communication and how ourselves and our students can benefit. Sarah Davies, who has written the book 'Talking About Oracy.' has constructed this KnowledgeBank as a guide to the subject.

  • 6 Apr
Creative Teaching & Learning

Facilitating an Open Question Mindset

Peter Worley, co-founder of The Philosophy Foundation, explores how to ask the sorts of questions that take children’s thinking further in this recording of a Master Class webinar.

  • 24 Aug
Digital Learning

Information Literacy

Why are so many children susceptible to grooming, fake news and extreme ideology? One of the reasons is a complete naivety about the voracity and ability to access information they read on the Internet. Why aren't schools taking information literacy more seriously?

  • 23 Aug
Creative Teaching & Learning

Questioning skills

What makes a good question? How can I use questioning to improve my students’ thinking? How can I improve my questioning? How can I encourage students to ask good questions? What is meant by a ‘questioning culture’? Why is Community of Enquiry and philosophy connected to questioning?

  • 19 Feb

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Blogs

The Long Win Is More Important Than Grades, Medals and Rankings

Dr Cath Bishop: Olympic silver medallist, former diplomat, business coach and educator, and author of ‘The Long Win’ argues that we should focus more on constant learning to get the big successes.

  • 16 Apr 2021
Learning Spaces

Launching A STEAM Revolution In Africa At Kent College, Cairo

After the uprising in Egypt in 2011 there has been a marked demand for higher quality, western-style education. Alongside this there has been a demand for innovative, flexible school design. Shadi Abd Elsalam reports

  • 16 Apr 2021
Blogs

Why ResearchMust Be At The Heart Of Professional Practice

Raphael Wilkins vehemently condemns the persistent barriers to practitioner research engagement and calls for a fundamental shift which establishes school based research as the means for continuous quality improvement.

  • 9 Apr 2021
Professional Development

Why Research Often Has Zero Impact On Teaching – And How INSET Can Make The Difference

Marcella McCarthy describes how research engagement transformed in-service training within her school

  • 8 Apr 2021
Leadership

Where Next? What Influences the Choices School Leavers Make?

Young people need "early engagement" in careers information and advice, with one in three students not knowing that university was an option for them at primary school.

  • 7 Apr 2021
Leadership

The Road Not Taken: Drivers of Course Selection

This report investigates why there are differences in education course choices – and their likely consequences.

  • 7 Apr 2021
Leadership

Composite Classes, Class Size and Human Capital Accumulation

This research concludes that exposure to older peers is highly beneficial to primary school pupils in terms of attainment.

  • 7 Apr 2021
Leadership

The State of Technology in Education 2020/21

By gathering the opinions of over 2,000 educators during lockdown, this report found out which strategies and technologies schools relied on and how COVID-19 will impact the future of learning.

  • 7 Apr 2021
Blogs

The Crying Shame Of Erasmus: Opposition To Exit Gains Momentum

The UK gained a huge amount rom Erasmus, encouraging talent from across the world to visit the UK , and often stay, and for our school children and students to learn from foreign cultures. Opposition to our disgraceful exit is mounting. Martin Cumella reports

  • 1 Apr 2021

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Leadership

Healthy Schools, Healthy Children?

This is the first major Ofsted survey on the broader aspects of health and well–being of pupils since the introduction of the Every Child Matters agenda. It covers the school ethos, the curriculum, food and drink, PE and school sport, lifelong health messages and barriers to improvement. Folder: Leadership Briefings Issue 11

  • 1 Jan 2005
Leadership

National Review of the Early Years and Childcare Workforce

This 90–page review looks at 5 main areas: Roles and Responsibilities; Qualifications and Training; Career Pathways; Recruitment and Retention; Workforce Planning. The Reviews findings are aimed primarily at managers of services, representative bodies, training providers and other organisations involved in early years and childcare. Folder: Leadership Briefings Issue 12

  • 1 Jan 2005
Digital Learning

Board Games

Schools are embracing interactive whiteboards and students are reaping the benefits from new software, says DUNCAN MCMILLAN, who looks at how one award-winning company is bringing a new dimension to maths through interactive games designed specially for interactive whiteboard use.

  • 24 Jan 2007
Creative Teaching & Learning

Analytic v synthetic phonics

Professor Rhona Johnston and Dr Joyce Watson, explore analytic versus synthetic phonics; consider the research into the merits of the techniques; and look at the outcome of phonics teaching on a child’s reading success.

  • 2 Mar 2007
Leadership

Collaborative Learning

Chris Watkins takes a closer look at collaboration between pupils: why do they enjoy it and how does it work?

  • 10 May 2009

Blogs

Blogs

Levelling The Playing Field For Recruitment

Ben Antell is regional director of United Learning, one of the biggest academy chains in the UK. Here he shares his hints and tips for getting schools to see the benefits of this free recruitment tool.

  • 25 Mar 2021
  • Ben Antell
Blogs

Are Teacher-Assessed Exam Grades Accurate Enough ?

Howard Sharron looks at the controversy over teacher assessed grades and the likelihood of bias and inconsistencies

  • 1 Mar 2021
  • Howard Sharron
Blogs

Why We Still Need The Humanities, Social Sciences, And Arts In A STEM World

The growth of STEM subject preferences for university courses is both desirable and understandable after the Pandemic. But it shouldn't blind us to the importance of the arts and humanities, argues Sophie Goldsworthy

  • 23 Feb 2021
Blogs

Why Coaching for Kids Is A Main Road Back To Learning

As a prelude to her important online training series for TeachingTimes, Coaching For Kids', Jackie Beere explains how Peer Coaching can empower staff and pupils to open their minds about their own abilities.

  • 19 Feb 2021
  • Jackie Beere
Blogs

Award Winning Deaf Teacher An Inspiration For Deaf and Hearing Children Alike

My most uplifting moment of the year so far was when I interviewed Alysha Allen, who has won the 2020 Teacher Of The Year Award despite being profoundly deaf

  • 26 Jan 2021
  • Sal McKeown

Teaching Resources

Creative Teaching & Learning

Evelyn Dunbar Assembly

Art is a powerful tool in time of crisis and great social change. This assembly by Matt James, examines the role that art has played during times of profound national crisis, both in relation to the Second World War and during the current Covid-19 pandemic.

  • 16 Jul
Creative Teaching & Learning

Materials

Pupils need to have experience of as many different materials as possible to make sense of their world. Of course, the idea of studying different types of materials, such as paper, wood or metals might seem a little uninspiring, but the fact remains that materials science (in terms of materials’ properties and usage etc.) is an important part of both Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 education.

  • 7 May
Creative Teaching & Learning

Weather

Literacy, numeracy and science through the topic of weather.

  • 30 Apr
Creative Teaching & Learning

World Environments

Literacy, numeracy and science through the topic of World Environments.

  • 23 Apr

Online Professional Learning Courses In A Time Of Covid-19

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Upcoming Course: Coaching For Kids – Micro-Coaching To Motivate Disheartened Students

25th March 2021

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