Once upon a time I was a natural environmental science graduate, and one of my dilemmas at age 21 was whether or not to undertake a funded PhD on peat bog recla...
According to its last annual report, half of all senior leaders in England consult the Education Endowment Foundation’s Teaching and Learning Toolkit to inform ...
Motivation is a complicated beast. Traditionally broken into intrinsic and extrinsic types, students may be motivated by a whole host of competing and intertwin...
The literature on group work indicates pros and cons to its use in the classroom. By looking at mechanisms of group failure and success and then linking these t...
Developing a culture of learning at Bradford Academy that reflects our desire to be a ‘great school’ has become our major focus. The founding teaching and learn...
A longstanding debate in educational and psychological research is the effectiveness of constructivist teaching methods over direct instruction. Although constr...
When I started teaching in the 1990s, I knew almost nothing about the students in my new classes apart from their names. Now every September I have data for eac...
Increasing motivation in MFL is crucial for the success of the subject at all key stages. This paper sets out a simple method with which to help increase motiva...
Challenging students to think hard is bread and butter in teaching and learning at The Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School. But how does a department enhance lite...
The topic of behaviour management and the problems teachers face in dealing with disruption to lessons continues to evoke strong argument within the profession....
Behaviour management remains a critical matter that can cloud the working day for too many teachers (NFER, 2013). The advice below is for teachers who, like me,...
Any discussion about behaviour should begin with thinking about our values. What do we mean by ‘good behaviour’? How do we want our children to think about thei...
The author of this article is an Associate at Unlike Minds, an organisation that offers chargeable consultancy services in many fields including education.
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Children and young people can present with behaviours of concern, particularly if the pupil has additional needs associated with a social or communication diffe...
Transition from the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) to Key Stage 1 often marks a shift from a play-oriented curriculum to a goal-focused one. This usually r...
It is often the case that pupils are asked to give their opinions on a range of issues facing schools, through pupil forums, assemblies and prefect bodies. Ther...
A significant proportion of students in schools in the UK use English as an additional language (EAL). Latest figures show that EAL learners in England account ...
All teachers need to develop children’s knowledge of academic literacy in different curriculum areas so that they can interpret written text. Academic literacy ...
This article explores what an inclusive culture in the primary classroom entails, and how it can be created and sustained. Drawing on my recent work (Eaude, 201...
In this reflection, we offer three viewpoints on the development of a growth mindset philosophy in one school and consider how it may continue to influence scho...
