The use of Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) technology in education is nothing new; the first recorded use was a flight simulator used to train U...
Geographical information systems (GIS) are a powerful tool for the visualisation and analysis of geographical information (Fargher , 2017) – for example, combin...
The possibilities that technology offers us to improve learning are tremendously exciting. In the past few years, the question has shifted from whether technolo...
Recently we have seen a dramatic increase in the amount of digital technologies available to use within educational environments, though there is debate around ...
The high impact of effective feedback on learning is consistently emphasised in educational research (Hattie , 2009), yet providing pupils with timely, personal...
Facilitating peer-based formative assessment through online quizzes
Daniel Luxton, Teacher of Mathematics, Stanwell School, Vale of Glamorgan, UK
Picardo (Pic...
In January 2018, the Cambridgeshire Educational Trust launched an additional revision programme. We designed and built software to send personalised daily email...
In recent years, providing student feedback has become increasingly burdensome, to the point where it is now one of the biggest contributors to teacher workload...
The breakthrough in my thinking about the curriculum came when I tried to answer the question that I now think every generation should ask: ‘what are schools fo...
Curriculum is all about power. Decisions about what knowledge to teach are an exercise of power and therefore a weighty ethical responsibility. What we choose t...
England’s National Curriculum states, in an echo of Matthew Arnold’s words from his book Culture and Anarchy (Arnold, 1869), that teachers should provide ‘pupil...
Cottenham Primary School’s (CPS) 2015 Ofsted inspection resulted in a ‘requires improvement’ rating, necessarily leading towards a refocused vision for the scho...
When the new specifications for GCSE English were published, the focus was on how to cover the content of the course in two years and how the skills of analysis...
The when, how and why of assessment are ultimately dependent on what is being assessed, namely the curriculum. Like many schools, we spent a lot of time redesig...
Assessment can sometimes feel like a tedious chore. Teaching should be about inspiring young minds, not driving them through a series of stultifying tests. And ...
As a memory researcher and teacher-educator, I sometimes get a negative reaction when I talk about improving teachers’ understanding of human memory. Am I sugge...
Deepening knowledge through vocabulary learning
Effective vocabulary instruction: The underlying reasoning and research
Isabel L Beck and Margaret G McKeown
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Introduction
In 2004, Robin Alexander published his seminal work Towards Dialogic Teaching: Rethinking Classroom Talk (Alexander, 2017, 2020). Now in its fifth...
Amy’s geography teacher has asked the class to prepare a short presentation about rainforest ecosystems. To plan this, Amy reflects on how she learned best ...
At the heart of effective classroom practice is the need to teach children to think well. This fascinates me, especially the mysteries of metacognition. I’m not...
