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Creative Teaching & Learning

What Lies Beneath Ireland’s Striking Success In Reading Literacy?

Research recently published by the National Foundation for Educational Research suggests that good links with the community, a stable policy environment and greater autonomy for schools, contribute towards Republic of Ireland pupils achieving higher reading scores than their counterparts in the UK and other English speaking countries. Juliet Sizmur, provides further reflections on the study.

  • 18 Jul
  • Juliet Sizmur
Professional Development

How To Put The Student At The Centre Of Learning

Julian Grant describes how all aspects of his school came to be built on one overriding purpose - students being in control of their own learning. He gives guidance on how readers can apply this in their own schools.

  • 30 Jul 2021
  • 24mins
  • Julian Grant
Professional Development

How Blended Teaching Can Enable True Blended Learning

Pritpal Chandan explores the pedagogy of Blended Learning and provides professional development guidance to help teachers to facilitate this effectively for learners.

  • 30 Jul 2021
  • 24mins
  • Pritpal Chandan
Digital Learning

Challenging Maths Anxieties To Make Learning Fun This Summer

Paul Carter, former teacher and head of learning content at Mangahigh, explores how edtech and gaming can make maths fun and reduce anxiety ahead of the new academic year

  • 25 Jul 2021
  • 24mins
Blogs

Help Your Children Respect Gender Equality Online

Dr Linda Papadopoulos, psychologist and Internet Matters ambassador, explains why stereotypes are having such an impact on young people

  • 25 Jul 2021
  • 24mins
  • Dr Linda Papadopoulos

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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Leadership

Remote Learning Has Set Children up for Life Beyond School

70% of parents and teachers believe digital skills gained during the pandemic will aid children in their future, with over half of teachers wanting to see online interaction combined with traditional teaching in the school curriculum.

  • 20 Jul 2021
Leadership

The Role of Audiobooks to Engage Reluctant Readers and Under-Represented Children and Young People

This survey of 42,502 children and young people aged 8 to 18 showed almost half (48.7%) of children and young people listened to podcasts and audiobooks in the last year.

  • 20 Jul 2021
Leadership

Learning About Place: Understanding Lifelong Learning and Social Mobility in COVID Britain

This report highlights the need for a more flexible lifelong learning strategy, more localised careers support and an expansion of higher education if the government’s levelling up agenda is to be effective.

  • 20 Jul 2021
Leadership

The Cost of High-Quality Professional Development for Teachers in England

A policy of providing teachers with an entitlement to 35 hours of high-quality continuing professional development (CPD) a year has been shown to bring significant returns in the way of pupil attainment and earnings, and may tackle retention problems in the teaching profession.

  • 20 Jul 2021
Leadership

Re-thinking Assessment 3: Visible Progress

In the final of three articles Professor Bill Lucas looks at the visible progress taking place within educational assessments.

  • 18 Jul 2021
Creative Teaching & Learning

How To Promote Reflection By Older Students On Their Independent Learning

Asking students to reflect and review their work is often a thankless task. Young people might not have with the intellectual habits of mind or cognitive skills. Andrew K. Shenton says that models of reflection can provide them with some scaffolding.

  • 18 Jul 2021
Blogs

The Early Career Framework Is Designed To Stop One Third Of New Teachers Leaving – Will It Work?

The ECF is hitting schools next term! Janice Fletcher, who leads the programme for Capita, shares her teaching philosophy and explains why tailored continuous professional development is so vital.

  • 18 Jul 2021
Blogs

Digital Assessment Is Key To Bridging The UK’s Digital Skills Gap

Peter Collison of RM gives his view about closing the skills gap and saving a 'lost generation'.

  • 15 Jul 2021
Learning Spaces

Co-Designing Innovative Learning Environments: The Smart Classroom Project

Research in several Spanish Universities is trying to find new ways to think about that suit modern learning and teaching methods. Professor Guillermo Bautista Pérez of the Open University of Catalonia, reports.

  • 11 Jul 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

Cultivating Leadership Presence and Resilience Through Mindfulness

A leader’s inner world needs as much attention and training as the ‘external’ skills of leadership, if they are to survive and be effective, argues Maggie Farrar.

  • 1 Jul 2021
  • Maggie Farrar
Blogs

Teachers Are Appreciating A Broader Approach To Their Subject Matter

Inspiring students to love learning subjects is a tall order. But The PTI wants rich subject provision to be centre stage as Carolyn Roberts explains.

  • 27 Jun 2021
  • Carolyn Roberts
Blogs

One Britain One Nation Anthem Shows Flaws In The Government’s Music Strategy

Antony Copus reflects on the importance of singing in children's lives and the One Britain One Nation song

  • 24 Jun 2021
  • Antony Copus FRSA
Blogs

A Student’s Perspective On Learning Online

How one student felt about lockdown and learning online

  • 8 Jun 2021
Blogs

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

Dr Cath Bishop, Olympic silver medalist, 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
  • Dr Cath Bishop

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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