Inference is the powerful tool that allows those who can use it to assume from ‘Max panted as he held the bone’ that Max is a dog and not an exhausted palaeonto...
This is an extract from the Chartered College of Teaching’s Windows into the Classroom series, available now to all members on our Research and Practice Hub...
In recent years, there appears to have been a growing trend for school teachers and leaders to be shunning educational fads and gimmicks in favour of a more evi...
A runaway tram is on course to collide with five people on the tracks ahead. You, a bystander, are near a lever, which you could pull to divert the tram ont...
Learning science research aims to replace untested assumptions and intuitions about how people learn with empirically supported principles. However, many learni...
Teachers are often told about the merits of teaching in mixed-attainment groups, so why do so many of us still group children in a way that much resea...
I recently explained to a colleague about how engaging with cognitive science has helped me develop as a teacher.
‘Interesting... but what does that look li...
Like all secondary schools nationwide, we awaited the unveiling of the new linear GCSE and A-level qualifications with a mixture of emotions. Whilst looking f...
Last summer our faculty decided to re-write our Key Stage 3 science scheme of work (SOW). It had become apparent that our students were severely lacking fluency...
When embarking on a new stage of schooling, each student brings with them a different experience of what learning looks like and feels like, often reinforced by...
Research on growth mindset suggests that students’ beliefs about intelligence have a significant impact on their attainment. Students who believe intelligence...
Oakthorpe Primary School in Leicestershire has had a keen focus on improving children’s wellbeing and resilience for the last six years. This started in respons...
Since the launch of the Institute for Research in Schools (IRIS) in March 2016, students and teachers who work with us have access to cutting-edge research pr...
The growing body of research in the evolving new fields of ‘The Learning Sciences’ and ‘Mind, Brain, and Education’ provides great opportunities to improve lear...
In this article, we discuss a specialist coaching approach to overcoming a particularly pertinent issue for teachers, that of supporting children with speech, l...
Comparative judgement is not a new method of assessment. It was first proposed by LL Thurstone (1927) as a means of describing 'the processes of human judgement...
The professional context and challenge
Learn Academies Trust (Learn-AT) launched in September 2016 with seven primary schools. In the first year of operation, ...
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) reported this year that 45 per cent of young teachers have concerns over their mental health and are considering leaving th...
'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...
The abandonment of national curriculum levels has created an assessment upheaval in our schools. Alongside the difficult process of developing new internal syst...
