Welcome to The Profession, the new annual publication for early career teachers, and also welcome to the fantastic career path you have chosen. Hopefully you ag...
Teachers are amazing. By entering the teaching profession, you’ve committed to making a real difference to each and every child in your classroom. We share a ph...
This article summarises the report: Coe R, Aloisi C, Higgins S et al. (2014) What makes great teaching? Review of the underpinning research. Sutton Trust, Octob...
Changing perspectives
When I began teaching, back in 2003, I was frequently told that I was a teacher first and subject specialist second. There was a prevale...
Subject associations can support your professional development by providing opportunities to develop your subject knowledge and engage with colleagues within yo...
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 ...
Questions are an integral part of classroom life and essential to every teacher’s pedagogical repertoire. Questioning serves many purposes: it engages students ...
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...
Cognitive Load Theory (CLT) has recently become ‘The Next Big Thing’ in teaching. Dylan Wiliam tweeted on 26 January 2017 that he had ‘come to the conclusion Sw...
Welcome to teaching, the most rewarding, challenging and exhilarating job that you will ever be involved in. You have just stepped into a world where each and e...
As an English teacher, head of department, SENCo, Senior Leader and now head of a large innercity teacher training organisation, I have had the privilege of con...
"Good teachers use good techniques and routines, but techniques and routines alone do not produce good teaching. The real art of teaching lies in teachers’ prof...
As a trainee you will probably be expected to write a detailed lesson plan for your teaching course. Of course, you want to be prepared, but where do you start,...
One of the biggest changes in education in the last few years has been a shift of focus from pedagogy to curriculum. As a new teacher, it is increasingly import...
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...
A common characteristic of the British education system is the high level of student diversity that exists within classrooms. Whether new to teaching or experie...
When used effectively, technology can support teachers in improving educational outcomes. So, let’s explore five evidence-informed principles for great teaching...
This is it. Your class, without anyone sitting at the back. Your class, without having to justify every move. Your class. Utterly brilliant and utterly terrifyi...
For too long, education research lived in an academic ‘secret garden’, accessible only to a select few. To get even a very basic overview of the research around...
Fitting everything in is tough, and that goes for everyone, whether you’re new to a job or you've been in it for years. But what if we thought harder about our ...
