So many of us have retrieval activities in our schools. But how do you retrieve something that isn't there? And how can you make retrieval more effective?
Retrieval Practice: How Do I Remember Something I Didn’t Learn?
Is Teacher Recruitment Bringing In The Wrong People?
Great teaching demands dedication, accountability, and a commitment to continuous improvement. Are we hiring people with those qualities?
Tracking pupil progress: Things you need to understand about assessment
Assessments often test only a fraction of a subject. Comprehensive testing over time is necessary for true progress measurement, and the ultimate educational goal is mastery, where students can handle any aspect of the subject matter.
Prioritise subject knowledge as an ECT (Early Career Teacher)
If you’re a new teacher, your first priority should be to develop your subject knowledge - to give you authority, save time for everything else, and increase your wellbeing and longevity.
Curriculum Design: Explicitly map out what you want to teach
Discover how explicitly writing out the key learning points of your curriculum can transform your teaching and assessment, improve achievement, and close the disadvantage gap.
Your Key Words List / Glossary Probably Stinks. Design A Better One.
The key words list you handed out to your students is probably rubbish. Here's how to design a better one - by first engaging in some solid thinking around your curriculum.
Teacher standards: Be the ALPHA!
Are you the brightest star in your students' lives? Are you the one they're all tuned to? Are you the Alpha of your classroom? You need to be!
Managing Defiant Behaviour in Schools – It’s Not About ‘Winning’
How do you tackle straight up defiance, rudeness and disrespect in our students? By remaining impersonal, consistent, and focusing on the behaviour, not the person.
Developing Literacy in PSHE – Where to find things to read
Students need to be reading in PSHE as well. Here's a list of different places you can go to for material you can get your students reading in class.
Assessment Planning – Improving Extended Writing
Long-answer, 'essay' questions. How do you get students really good at them? There's a lot of prior work needed. Here's what to do.
Importance of starting routines for your classroom
How a lesson begins has an enormous influence on what happens subsequently. Having clear and regular routines that are enforced without fail allow you a multitude of benefits, and I've picked out five for your reading pleasure.
Musings On Teacher Authority
There are two kinds of authority you need to have. The first is the one granted to you by your job role. The other (longer-lasting one) is the one you develop as an expert. Learn more about the two here.
Developing Long Term Memory By Rehearsal
Retaining anything in long-term memory requires repetition and rehearsal. Here are three proven techniques you can build into lessons to aid long-term memory.
Curriculum Intent, Implementation, Impact SIMPLIFIED
With all of this talk of everything "curriculum" floating around, you might get confused on the different things that it involves, so I've produced a simple diagram to show you and how it all fits together.
How To Plan Collaboratively
We're all looking to achieve consistency across our departments and school, right? Collaborative planning allows you to do that. Here's how to do it.
Detentions DON’T Work! (How To Fix Them)
Do you want to make detentions in your school mean more than sitting in silence for an hour and then going home, while the same kids show up over and over again? Read on.
Stay Polite And Respectful (Be The Perfume)
You might be responsible for creating the only environment in which they are talked to in a respectful way, as a mature developing adult, on equal par to you in terms of dignity.
3 Things You MUST Believe To Be An Effective Teacher
You can TALK yourself into being a more effective teacher. Believe these 3 things in order to be more confident each day.
You’re Not There To Be Liked
The boundaries you're uncomfortable enforcing are the very same ones that they NEED because the chances are, they aren't getting them elsewhere from the other people in their lives.
Behaviour And ‘Curriculum’ Are Linked (Two Horses Pulling ONE Carriage)
When discussions take place around 'curriculum', you can't ignore the fact that getting behaviour right is an integral part of it.
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