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There have been minor updates to Keeping Children Safe in Education statutory safeguarding guidance for schools ...
As such, it advises secondary schools to focus, in particular, on arriving year 7 pupils who had a year 6 absence rate of “at ...
Practical strategies and approaches to help teachers write and implement effective success criteria in lessons in school ...
Advice for new teachers on how to prepare for and deliver lessons in schools with challenging groups of students ...
Practical ideas for how teachers can build their staying power and what schools can do to help boost staff retention ...
Signs of systemic strain are already visible. Independent schools are moving away from high-stakes public exams (see Bedales ...
Teaching debating and rhetoric is a crucial part of oracy education, especially for disadvantaged learners in schools ...
The latest workforce figures from the Department for Education (DfE, 2024a) show that the retention crisis is not abating. The most recent figures covering 2022/23 show that 39,971 teachers left state ...
In the high-pressure environment of schools, managing staff stress and preventing burn-out are vital for maintaining a positive and productive workplace. Educators face numerous challenges, including ...
In this series, I am attempting to elaborate and share what the recipe of test-enhanced learning (more commonly known as retrieval practice), spaced learning, interleaving, feedback, metacognition, ...
Metacognitive approaches have great potential to boost student progress. In this five-article series, Helen Webb explains the teaching and learning model at Orchard Mead Academy and how it translates ...
Through subject-focused talk, students learn discipline-specific ways of thinking and knowing, acquire distinctive uses of vocabulary or expression, and engage in differing types of dialogue and ...