Should Schools Ban Phones or Embrace Technology in Education? With an increasing number of parents seeing smartphones as a distraction in schools – particularly in the classroom, questions are arising about whether they should be completely banned, or whether they can actually be managed in such a way that they can benefit children and their…
7 Top Tips for Improving Pupils’ Grades As schools focus on trying to make up for learning lost during lockdown, teaching professionals will be looking at ways of boosting their students’ performance. Here are a few tried and tested methods that some of the UK’s top secondary schools are putting into practice. Using assessment to…
How is teacher training being shaken up? Here is what schools need to know The government has published the outcomes of its major teacher training review, outlining how the sector could be radically reshaped over the course of the next academic year. The Times Educational Supplement (TES) adds: “The Department for Education (DfE) expert advisory…
How Schools Use Public Speaking to Build Pupils’ Leadership Qualities Students are honing their debating skills as part of schools’ involvement with the English Speaking Union (ESU), which works up and down the country to promote oracy. Oracy means being able to speak eloquently, express ideas and thoughts and influence others through talking. It involves…
7 Ways Teachers Can Inspire Girls into STEM learning Dr. Jo Foster, Director of The Institute for Research in Schools, believes girls studying and working in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) is a cause to celebrate and not one for complacency. Rightly so. In her 13th August 2021 article for Schools Week in this…
7 Time Management Tips For Busy Teaching Professionals Two 2021 Pearson silver award winners Reema Reid, headteacher at Hollydale Primary School in Southwark, and Aashna Jethmalani, a science teacher at Haileybury Turnford, a secondary school in Waltham Cross, offer some top tips for busy teaching professionals to manage their time effectively. 1. Prioritise – decide…
What are the best ways to support Early Career Teachers? Teachers often work long hours and feel under pressure, making teacher retention an all-too-common issue. Even long before the Covid-19 pandemic, school standards minister Nick Gibb revealed in 2016, in response to a parliamentary question, that between 2012 and 2017 on average 30 percent of…
The Push for Digital Transformation in Schools The Covid-19 pandemic has been a catalyst for change for many organisations, and schools haven’t been left out of the push it has created for digital transformation and online learning. Although now over, school closures “drove multi-generational digital upskilling in schools. A study published on 26th April 2021…
Building teachers’ skills: the importance of continuing professional development Teachers in England undertake less continuing professional development (CPD) overall and are less likely to engage in subject-specific CPD than those in most other high performing countries. This finding was reported in Developing great subject teaching, a report produced in 2018 by Wellcome, the Centre for…
The Role of Creativity and Innovation in Teaching Innovative teacher Lucy Bate, of Delamere Academy in Tarporley, Cheshire, found a creative way of teaching her students their times tables. As a Key Stage 2 teacher she has been taking her classes outside and using a drone “to capture the imagination of her maths pupils.” The…
