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Why Your School Should Teach Mandarin – and Why Students Should Learn It It’s time we started valuing subjects for more than how well they might prepare young people for an unpredictable jobs market, argues Cara Bleiman

Giving Career Advice to Students – What you Need to Know So, out of nowhere, you’ve been allocated 'careers advice provision' as part of your job description – but where do you start? Ruth Sparkes has some pointers...

What is challenge in science and how should we approach it in schools? Rosalind Walker offers eight ways to help students delve deep into the scientific study's world of profound explanation and elegant prediction...

Prime Decomposition, HCF and LCM, for KS3/4 Maths Calculating the HCF and LCM of 2 (or more) numbers by using Prime Decomposition and Venn Diagrams. Includes some worded questions and follows on from the other Prime Decomposition lesson I have on the TES site. Download includes one PowerPoint file and two word documents (questions and answers). Owen134866 is a TES Resource Contributor of […]

Highest Common Factor (HCF) Treasure Hunt for KS3/4 Students are given a pair of numbers and asked to find the highest common factor. There are 10 questions in total. Comes as an editable text document and as a PDF. Find more resources from Simon Murphy at his TES shop and follow him on Twitter at @cyprusboro.

Three films to support the teaching of literature and GCSE English set texts See how the film adaptations of Romeo + Juliet, Pride and Prejudice and A Christmas Carol can enrich your English lit lessons

8 of the Best Representing Data Resources for Teaching Graphs and Statistics in KS4 Maths Help your GCSE students extrapolate, interpolate and correlate data using bar graphs, scatter graphs, pie charts and more

Do Teachers Have To Go On School Trips? You might not get paid to go, but there are benefits to volunteering to staff your school’s next residential

How Embedding Outdoor Learning in your Secondary School’s Ethos Benefits Students At Bohunt Education Trust, outdoors learning is embedded within the ethos, says Philip Avery – and the benefits are both profound, and measurable...

Nearly 90% Of Teachers Say They Are Teaching ‘Pointless’ Lessons To Give Students A Better Chance Of Passing National Tests Over the last year, 89% of teachers say they have taught a lesson they believe to have been of little or no educational value in order to help students pass national tests, with 43% of all respondents admitting this took place on at least a weekly basis. The survey of 436 teachers carried out by […]

Teacher stress – I was signed off because of my mental health and now teach supply Teacher JL Dutaut speaks honestly about his mental health journey and teacher burnout

Actress Alison Steadman Struggled with Reading at School – but that Didn’t Stop her Having a Thoroughly Splendid Time Teach Secondary speaks to Alison Steadman to discover what she learnt at school

11 of the best fractions resources for secondary maths Whether it's adding and subtracting, arranging in size order or finding equivalents, help your KS3 and 4 students master fractions with these excellent resources

Instead of Coercing Students into your Way of Thinking, How About Trusting them to Make Sensible Decisions for Themselves? “Pomme puree with a light foam glaze? We call it mashed potato so that they can choose whether it fits into their own plans for a balanced diet”

5 of the Best KS3/4 Maths Resources and Lesson Plans for Teaching Lowest Common Multiple and Highest Common Factor LCM and HCF are areas students often confuse, so these resources will help you make sure they know their factors from their multiples and offer some engaging activities to let the lessons sink in

Best reading and writing lesson plans for KS4 English Help your Year 10 and 11 students on the path to their GCSEs with these free lesson plans

6 of the best KS4 English literature lesson plans Dive deep into Dickens' detailed descriptions and delight in Doyle's detective fiction with these full, and free, lesson plans for your Year 10 and 11s...

9 of the best poetry resources and lesson plans for KS3/4 English Poetry can be a tough sell to young students, but these lesson plans offer numerous techniques to get them falling in love with verse...

5 of the best Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar (SPaG) lesson plans for KS3/4 English 5 of the best Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar (SPaG) lesson plans for KS3/4 English...

How virtual learning classrooms help students with anxiety and other mental health issues succeed Mental health issues can cause a vicious cycle of missed classes, depression, low productivity and disengagement. EdTech may just have a possible solution...

KS4 Chemistry Lesson Plan – Engage Learners by Investigating the Science Behind Plastics Polluting the Oceans Reality check – 2.2 million tonnes of single-use plastic packaging waste was generated in 2014. In that year 842,000 tonnes was recovered and 800,000 tonnes was exported for recycling. A total of 500,000 tonnes went to China. However, China has now changed its rules vastly reducing importing plastic waste and plastic is already building up […]

KS3/4 English Lesson – Character Study of Inspector Goole in An Inspector Calls This detailed lesson looks at the significance of Inspector Goole to the play, and includes an exam question and self-assessment sheet using grades 1-9. It is one of 13 detailed lesson PowerPoints for revision of ‘An Inspector Calls’, each focusing on a different character or theme using a variety of tasks. The full scheme also […]

KS3/4 English Starter Activity – Teach Students Ambitious Writing Techniques to Hook Their Reader’s Attention This perfect writing starter activity gets students to use more-ambitious techniques to hook their reader’s attention by using evocative images and writing prompts. This is part of a bigger resource of Ten writing starters for Paper 1, Question 5. Students are given a series of pictures as a stimulus (some of the photography is taken […]

Mrs Birling quotes teaching resource

Mrs Birling quotes – KS3/4 English ‘Explode the Quote’ tasks for An Inspector Calls These Mrs Birling quotes starter activities are perfect if you’re teaching or revising An Inspector Calls. The passages to analyse are: “A rather cold woman and her husband’s social superior.” [Triumphantly] “Didn’t I tell you? I couldn’t imagine a real police inspector talking like that to us?” Students have to ‘blow up’ words and phrases […]

KS3/4 English Lesson – A Christmas Carol Lesson and Quote Analysis Tasks This lesson focuses on the opening of A Christmas Carol and Dickens’ description of Scrooge, including a starter activity getting students to look closely at the deeper meaning, rather than just looking at a quote at surface level. This is part of a larger scheme of work on this Dickens classic, and is one of […]

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