Cottenham Primary School’s (CPS) 2015 Ofsted inspection resulted in a ‘requires improvement’ rating, necessarily leading towards a refocused vision for the scho...
Writing about curriculum development in 1975, Lawrence Stenhouse (Stenhouse, 1975) noted that the task of educational institutions is to make ‘available to the ...
In recent years, there has been much debate about whether schools should aim to teach students generic learning skills, or whether they should focus instead on ...
This article is based on an original research article published in the International Journal of Early Years Education (Boyd, 2014a). The full article can be fou...
In 2017, the Department for Education published a report that examined the progress of evidenced-informed teaching in England. The findings suggest that despite...
How can teachers support oracy in their classrooms?
Will Millard
Speech and communication lies at the heart of classroom practice. It is the predominant way i...
Consonant clusters (henceforth referred to as clusters) exist in English morphology and impact on how sounds blend together and how words may be segmented into ...
Why problem-solving? Problem-solving has long had a strong emphasis in mathematics education. In 1982, the Cockcroft Report asserted that ‘the ability to solve ...
Prior knowledge is one of the most influential factors in learning (Ausubel, 1968, cited in (Hattie and Yates, 2014), p. 114). Whilst most teachers are aware th...
In the 1970s, Professor Matthew Lipman advocated the introduction of philosophy into schools as a way to convert the classroom into a ‘community of enquiry’ ((L...
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...
Any activity designed to improve a school in any way should be backed by evidence that suggests that the effort is going to be worthwhile. One of the great joys...
The one constant in every teacher’s world is change, even if it is only the annual appearance of new faces and personalities in your classroom. Over the last 40...
This printable PDF poster includes explanations of a range of key terms from education research, including causation; effect size; Hawthorne effect; practition...
