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Why I Haven’t Quit Teaching (And You Shouldn’t Either) What's keeping expert educators in the profession? Here's what...

Shielding Students From Negative But Normal Feelings Like Stress Could Do More Harm Than Good Objecting to a policy or practice – including exams – on grounds of 'stress' is really a cop out, says Dr Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

We Went To The Whole School Send Strategy Summit – Here Are 9 Things We Learned The SEN system has its issues, but collaboration will see us through – and other observations from this year's Whole School SEND Summit...

8 of the best teaching resources for KS4 Modern Foreign Languages lessons Help your KS4 students boost their MFL skills on the road toward GCSEs with these activities, ideas and lesson plans...

If SEN Isn’t Causing A Child’s Poor Attainment, It’s Our Job To Find Out What Is Countless things can affect a child's attainment and it's our responsibility to play detective, says Nancy Gedge

KS4 Maths Lesson Plan – Link Maths To Real Life In This Problem Solving Lesson About Money Mathematical questions about a photo in a carpark gives a real-life context to this maths lesson. Students will devise their own investigations about the photo that will involve money, algebra, and finding patterns. Logical thinking and careful arithmetic are also required in this KS4 lesson. Browse more maths lessons from Colin Foster.

KS4 MFL Lesson Plan – Master Past, Present And Future Tenses With This Dr Who Inspired Lesson Teach the past, future and present tense in your target language by getting students involved in a little time travel. This is an active lesson that involves moving round the classroom and will really help the key MFL concepts stick. You can introduce a competitive element to learning this new vocabulary by making it a […]

KS4 MFL Lesson Plan – Run A Collaborative Learning Session Based Around Crepe Recipes Teamwork; practising listening, reading, writing and speaking; peer assessment, one to-one support; differentiation; pupil autonomy; evidence of progress; oh and a recipe for crêpes … all in one lesson? Using your language lab (or a variety of multimedia resources) can create an engaging and collaborative MFL learning session for students, especially when you construct it […]

Last Meeting’s (Unedited) Minutes – Our New Behaviour Policy It's been decided that the policy is well overdue a renewal, especially given the recent behaviour of Y9, who are starting to exhibit character traits seemingly inspired by post-apocalyptic literature and film

Pugilistic Pedagogy – What Taking Up Boxing Has Taught Me About Teaching When Director of Learning Lee Simpson took up boxing, the idea was to turn off from teaching for a while – but he quickly found himself doing the opposite

Languages Are A Life Skill – Four Ways To Develop A Love Of MFL For Secondary Students Students able to speak another language will find doors opening across the globe in all sectors, and it is our job as educators to make MFL magical

Maximise Revision For Every Student With ACUK For many students, the lead up to examination periods can be an incredibly stressful time, whether they are preparing for SATs, GCSEs or A-levels. The weight of exam results seems to increase every year and students may feel under enormous pressure not to let themselves, their parents or their teacher down. At ACUK we make […]

Cancelling School Trips Because Of Terrorist Attacks Means Fear Wins How we respond to harrowing events greatly influences children – we must teach them to make the most of their lives

6 Recommended Reads For KS4 Students This Term Give your upper-secondary readers something new to delve into this year with some of these great novels. 1. And Then We Ran This pacey, coming-of-age road trip story follows the experiences of Megan and Elliot, who are both under the pressure of family expectations, for different reasons. Megan wants to be a photographer, but her […]

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Start the New School Year as you Mean to go on by Getting Behaviour Right How to improve behaviour from day one by being the boss, building a community and being believable...

KS4 Science Lesson Plan – Make Use Of Recent Headlines To Make Air Pollution Relevant In Your Class Trigger debates and encourage students to connect their arguments to scientific evidence of the causes of air pollution and the technology that it is hoped will help us to make the air cleaner for everyone to breathe. Key curriculum links include parts of the KS4 chemistry program of study such as common atmospheric pollutants including […]

3 Ways To Find The Learning ‘Sweet Spot’ Coach children into knowing when an activity has become too easy so they can adapt and adjust to boost learning

KS4 Art Lesson Plan – Create A Collaborative Large-Scale Triptych From MDF Encouraging students to imagine a piece of art (or series of artworks) in its entirety before commencing with a new project can improve the quality of their creative output. A simple yet inexpensive way to get students thinking about how artworks are ‘choreographed’ rather than simply thrown together, is to study triptychs. They provide the […]

KS4 English Lesson Plan – Give Students A Foolproof Way To Find Relevant Evidence In Literature Exams This lesson plan helps to combat the issue of vast amounts of time being wasted during literature exams by students desperately looking for evidence to back up their points. It works as a fantastic refresher, as well as giving students a foolproof way to flick straight to the relevant material. Click here for more free […]

KS4 Science Lesson Plan – Should I Be Worried About Superbugs? Panic-filled headlines about winter vomiting bugs, swine flu and resistant antibiotics are becoming more and more commonplace in the media, but is there a real reason to worry or panic, and what can we do about it? This biology lesson plan will inspire pupils to dig beneath the scare stories and identify both genuine areas […]

KS4 History Lesson Plan – Use Roleplay To Explore Wealth, Poverty and Liberal Reforms of Early 20th Century Britain In this lesson, pupils get an introduction to the Liberal Reforms of 1906-1911 by examining the studies into poverty that contributed to these political milestones. It also provides pupils with two additional learning opportunities: gaining an insight into the research behind Booth’s Wealth & Poverty Map of 1901, and developing an understanding of the effort […]

KS4 Maths Lesson Plan – Use Pythagoras’ Theorem To Find Accurate Values For Triangle Perimeters In this lesson, students use Pythagoras’ theorem to find accurate values for the perimeters of some triangles. Although the values of the perimeters are so close that it would be very hard to distinguish them by measurement, mathematics makes it possible to be absolutely sure about the order in which they come. For more Colin […]

KS3/4 MFL Lesson Plan – Get Students To Debate With Confidence About The Subjects That Matter To Them This KS4 MFL lesson asks students to consider and debate the Syrian conflict in order to learn to speak in a different language with passion and feeling. They’ll build word banks in preparation to make sure they are able to articulate their points, which they will discuss with partners in the class.

KS3/4 Geography Lesson Plan – Use An Ice Cube To Show How Glaciers Move This lesson was originally used with a (very) mixed ability Year 11 class studying the ‘Ice on the Land’ topic as part of the AQA, a GCSE Specification for geography. It explores the three methods by which glaciers move: basal slip, rotational slip and internal deformation. They’ll need to draw accurate diagrams and even get […]

KS4 Physics Lesson Plan – Create Your Own Instruments And Calculate The Frequencies Of The Sounds Produced In this noisy and amusing lesson students investigate the physics of music by creating and playing their own musical instruments. You could even create an ‘orchestra’ to perform in assembly. Students can follow up their performance with detailed descriptions of how their instruments worked, including calculations of the frequencies of sound produced.

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