Since 1988, the curriculum has been a requirement of every school in England. Its earliest aims sought to ‘equip children for a lively and constructive place in...
The research context and the focus of the study
Talk is critical to the education process as it is the medium of instruction as well as a way for children to p...
What is spatial ability?
Spatial ability involves perceiving the location and dimension of objects and their relationships to one another. We use it to pack a ...
As teachers, we know the importance of vocabulary for accessing and meeting the demands of an increasingly challenging secondary curriculum. One way that school...
School reports are an enduring feature of the education landscape. They form part of our personal history, fondly retained by parents well beyond a child’s scho...
A longstanding debate in educational and psychological research is the effectiveness of constructivist teaching methods over direct instruction. Although constr...
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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All teachers need to develop children’s knowledge of academic literacy in different curriculum areas so that they can interpret written text. Academic literacy ...
At Reading Blue Coat School (RBCS), we are engaged in developing our peer mentoring programme to meet our pastoral care responsibilities. To put this into a nat...
Drawing is widely called upon across the secondary curriculum and has been made more prevalent by the Department for Education’s (2015) review of art and design...
Michael Young’s concept of powerful knowledge is central in considering the function of a school curriculum. Young argues that ‘powerful knowledge is inescapabl...
Within this action research project, we conducted our own inquiry focused on the use of peer assessment during literacy lessons over a unit of work (half a term...
Abstract
To increase the impact of the classroom management course required for the teaching degree programme at one small, private Midwestern university, the ...
We all recognise schools as places of learning for children and young people. However, in schools with strong learning cultures, everyone shares an identity as ...
Imagine a world where every child in your Primary classroom is the proud owner and reasonably competent user of a smart phone. Perhaps in your school this is al...
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...
