Simon Baron,Teacher of Languages, Parkside Community College (Cambridge), UK
In the English secondary school context, the focus on the measurement of education...
VERITY DOWNING, INDEPENDENT ACADEMIC, UK
The purpose of the ‘characteristics of effective teaching and learning’ (CETL) section of Early Years Foundation Stage...
Megan Price, Assessment Lead, Broad Square Primary School, UK
As at any point in time, teaching and learning are community activities, so now more than ever it...
Nick Pointer, Programmes Tutor, Ambition Institute, UK
The hegemony of assessment
For many years, schools have given a central role to summative-style assessm...
Steve Puttick, University of Oxford, Department of Education, UK
Written lesson observation feedback is a significant and shared aspect of school/university co...
Emma Hayward, Director of Music, Heathfield Knoll School, UK
In order for our students to make progress within the classroom, music teachers are particularly a...
Martin Leigh, Director of Music, King Edward's School, Birmingham
Dylan Wiliam thinks that ‘there’s a lot we can learn from music teachers’. He describes how i...
Ngozi Oguledo, Lead Practitioner, Ortu Gable Hall School, UK
Assessment is the planned or unplanned process involving the review of learning and the utilisatio...
Emily Walker, Gallions Primary School, UK
Feedback is a vital part of classroom practice but how does formative assessment translate to the online classroom?
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Hugh Stephens, Head of Geography, St Edward’s School, UK
We expect from education that our children become knowledgeable, successful learners, equipped to beco...
Richard McDonald, Director of English, Driffield School and Sixth Form, UK; English Subject Lead, The Education Alliance, UK
At first, my opinion of whole-clas...
David James, Alex Morgan and Emmajane Milton, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK Anna Bryant, Jennie Clement, Judith Kneen and Gary Beauchamp, Ca...
Victoria Foster, Simon Underhill, Kim Gillingham, Hazel Brinkworth
Dulwich College Shanghai Pudong (Junior School), China
Perhaps the most common and challeng...
Adewale Magaji, School of Education, FEHHS, University of Greenwich, UK
This article reports a section from a study aimed at promoting formative assessment thr...
Tamsin Page, Director of English, Cambridge Meridian Academies Trust, UK
Olivia Tolley, Teacher of English, North Cambridge Academy, UK
Shakespeare is hard. T...
Lucy Rycroft-Smith, Cambridge University, UK
Bart Crisp, CUREE, UK
Last month, a student answer to a test question was placed on Twitter, asking maths teacher...
LUKE HINCHLIFFE, GOFFS CHURCHGATE ACADEMY, UK
Goffs Churchgate Academy is currently rapidly expanding, with increasing numbers year on year. With an above-aver...
Elizabeth Hennah and Glenn Y Bezalel, St Helen’s School, UK
At St Helen’s, we have trialled the use of a ‘reading journal’ in English literature for Year 7 stu...
Claudia Pik-Ki Chu and Michelle Ellefson, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, UK
Conceptualisation of reading
Reading comprehension is a term that ...
FELICITY DEWSBERY, CHRISTINE PARKER AND ANGELA PRODGER, PEN GREEN TEACHING SCHOOL ALLIANCE, UK
The context of this case study is a School Direct teacher educat...
