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How To Incorporate Dialogic Teaching Strategies In The Classroom
In the second of three articles on Oracy, Sarah Davies explores the power of dialogic teaching.
Harnessing EdTech As A Catalyst For Change And Improvement
Pheasey Park Farm Primary School in Walsall, West Midlands found that EdTech transformed their school and its OFSTED rating. Here Sarah Morgan, Assistant Head Teacher, shared her school’s journey and some of the tips they can pass on to others
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
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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
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.
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.
Collaborative Learning
Chris Watkins takes a closer look at collaboration between pupils: why do they enjoy it and how does it work?
The limits of inclusion
With the growing government emphasis on inclusion, the role of special schools has become marginalised in education policy. Yet for many children, inclusion in the mainstream is a route to failure.
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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
A Headteacher’s Suicide That Should Never Have Happened
The tragic death of a brilliantly successful headteacher alerted Jackie Beere to the destructive nature of stress . it profoundly changed her life.
Why The School Library Was My First Investment – Richard Gerver
Richard Gerver, who has been called one of the country’s most inspirational and successful school leaders, urges schools to recognise the power of school libraries
The Digital School Of The Future
The depth of the change in teaching and learning in the last 12 months has been breath-taking, but we are only at the beginnings of the Edtech transformation, insists Parves Khan
A Modest Proposal For Schools After Christmas
Is there a better way to reconcile the dilemma that school are spreading the virus , and the need to keep hem open for the sake of educational equity?
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