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...
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...
The Centre for Educational Neuroscience (Centre for Educational Neuroscience, n.d.), a collaboration between UCL/IOE and Birkbeck, quote a Royal Society Report:...
The study and teaching of modern history can rely heavily on the use of multimedia. Video is now commonplace in education and more accessible than ever before t...
In 2014, I followed an interdisciplinary arts project called ‘Songlines’, delivered over two terms by The Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester. It aimed to:
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If we accept that knowledge of the brain is of value to teachers, it follows that we need to develop our understanding of how teachers mediate this type of info...
Claire Droney focuses on research into SEND-awareness education to inform the development of an autistic peer awareness programme.
‘Autism is where children ...
