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How to Plan a Great Secondary Curriculum – #JustLetMeTeach In the learning rainforest an endlessly creative canopy is supported by solid subject knowledge and the highest standards of study and behaviour, explains Tom Sherrington...

Help Students Find Time to Access the Breadth and Depth of Education to Succeed There's only so much learning that can be squeezed into the week, so how can students explore their passions in school and out to stand out to future universities or employers? Paul Merrell may have a solution...

Schools Need to Ensure Students from Disadvantaged Backgrounds can Access Theatre A disproportionate number of people from disadvantaged backgrounds work in theatre – and schools are partly to blame, says Katie Masters...

How performing and singing in music helps EAL pupils Got a challenging intake of EAL pupils on your hands? It may be time to call in the chamber musicians...

What To Do When Pupil Behaviour Becomes Extreme Tracey Lawrence looks what methods and approaches teachers can draw on when dealing with cases of extreme behaviour

Graph Sequences – Grades F to C for KS3 / KS4 Maths From drawing the next pattern to finding the nth term of an arithmetic sequence. KS3 Maths Curriculum Area Algebra Generate terms of a sequence from either a term-to-term or a position-to-term rule Recognise arithmetic sequences and find the nth term Andy Lutwyche is a purveyor of mathematics and a producer of resources, more of which […]

What to do after a bad observed lesson All kinds of random factors can lead to a rubbish observed lesson, says Tom Starkey – it’s what happens next that really matters...

Effective models for directed number teaching in secondary maths What's the best way to teach directed numbers so that students can understand? Don Steward takes you through the various models he's tried over the years...

2018 World Cup Country Factfiles – Printable PDFs for all 32 Teams This PDF resource features a country factfile of all 32 national football teams competing in the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia this June and July. Each country file includes the nation’s flag, its name in its native language(s), geography facts such as continent, area, population, capital city, most populous cities, major language(s), most common […]

Advert Maths – Units of Measurement Worksheet for KS3/4 This KS3/GCSE worksheet with answers uses the famous old ‘Accrington Stanley, who are they?’, ‘Exactly’ advert for milk. I have based some measures conversion on the things that appear. It includes simple conversions, metric to imperial and area conversion. The video for the advert is on both the Notebook and PowerPoint versions of the resource. […]

Why Peer Pressure has Such an Incredible Power over Secondary Students Ever wondered why your students care so much about what their classmates think, feel and say? It’s because they have no choice, says Dean Burnett...

Why do Pupils Become Disengaged, and How Can You Stop It? Adam Riches outlines four key factors why students switch off in lessons, and ways in which you can keep them engaged and enthused about learning

Live marking – How immediate feedback helps students learn and reduces teacher workload Practice makes perfect? Only if you're practising the right things. And instant feedback will help keep students on the right path and avoid getting smacked in the face, metaphorically speaking, says Lee Simpson...

KS4 Biology Lesson Plan – Take a Scientific Look at the Sweet Danger of Sugar Increasingly, scientists believe we are consuming far too much sugar. Some even suggest that sugar is the greatest threat to human health, taking its toll on our bodies through obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. The Government reports that a third of children aged two to 15 are overweight or obese. This also threatens our economy […]

KS4 Maths Lesson Plan – Use Ratio to Work out How to Carry Enough Food to Stay Alive in the Desert Working out how to carry enough food to stay alive in a challenging environment poses interesting problems. In this lesson, students use their knowledge of ratio to make sense of a real-world scenario in which enough food must be carried into the desert to allow a group of people to survive for a certain length […]

Engaging Lessons? We are Educators, not Entertainers Still trying to come up with lessons that are ‘relevant and engaging’? It’s not just your own time you’re wasting, warns Andy Lewis...

5 Ways to Teach Students to have a GCSE Mindset Focus on these five, key, non-cognitive traits, say Steve Oakes and Martin Griffin – and you can transform any student into an effective learner...

How to Use Symbols to Help Children with SEND Succeed Sometimes a simple, visual approach to communication can succeed where even the most well-chosen words will fail, says Adele Devine…

Why Play-Based Learning Should be Used for all Age Groups from Early Years to Further Education You may think secondary students are too old for fun and games in class, but elements of play can get all kinds of learners engaged, says Vicki Vincent...

KS4 English Literature Lesson Plan – Let Students Play the Role of Examiner to Make Crucial Contextual Links about Texts With the new GCSEs, the expectations for candidates to understand the world surrounding an extract are higher than ever before. On top of this, exam and comprehension questions are designed to assess learners’ understanding of specific themes within already-challenging texts. In order to ensure that students are responding to a text, sessions can be planned […]

Teacher Recruitment – We Need to Spread the Word About How Great this Job Is Teacher applications are plummeting, so we need to do our bit to advertise this amazing profession, says The Primary Head...

8 Ways to Prepare Deaf Pupils for a School Trip Make that next visit one to remember – for the right reasons – with these tips from Stevie Mayhook

Why Tech is the Sensible Way to Address the Teacher Workload Crisis Automation need no longer be a dirty word in education, says Sam Blyth...

A Relentless Focus on CPD and High Expectations for All are the Driving Forces at this Coastal School “I'm giving responsibility back to the teachers,” says principal Kate Rutherford

Alex Brooker – “My school hadn’t had many disabled pupils” Journalist, presenter and comedian Alex Brooker looks back on the boisterousness and occasionally misguided, if well-intentioned, lessons of his time in the classroom...

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