A relatively incontrovertible aim of education is to enable students to become independent in their learning, equipping them with the skills to make strategic a...
In 2018, the Education Endowment Foundation published some guidance for schools on Metacognition and Self-Regulated Learning, which we are told provides ‘high i...
Rhetoric?
Would you want to work in a school that had a narrow, unbalanced curriculum? How about one with a broad, balanced curriculum? The questions are rhet...
Ofsted’s consultation about its new education inspection framework, with its focus on the curriculum, is leading Early Years practitioners to wonder what a curr...
Using technology to promote student metacognition through ‘think alouds’
Claire Badger, Senior Teacher, Teaching and Learning, The Godolphin and Latymer School...
Facilitating peer-based formative assessment through online quizzes
Daniel Luxton, Teacher of Mathematics, Stanwell School, Vale of Glamorgan, UK
Picardo (Pic...
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...
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 ...
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...
'Imagine what a difference it would make if children knew what they were good at and what they had to do to improve.' With these stirring words, our trainer ext...
Feedback seems extremely powerful. It is 'among the most common features of successful teaching and learning' with an average effect size of 0.79, 'twice th...
