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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...

We must stop sidelining the arts and offer students a genuinely rounded education We need to ensure that 'soft-skill' subjects are given centre stage and not ghettoised. This will ensure enhanced learning across all disciplines and lead to success

Ofsted Action On Schools ‘Gaming’ The System May Be Too Little, Too Late For Some Pupils When schools ‘game’ the system it puts additional pressure on others, and gives an unrealistic picture of what is happening in the sector. Competition wins over collaboration, says Sue Cowley...

How do you define ‘progress’ in schools? The concept of progress needs to be carefully and collectively understood by teachers and pupils alike in order for it to be meaningful, says Will Ord

“‘Inclusion’ Isn’t Right, Doesn’t Work and Perpetuates Discrimination Against Children with SEND” It doesn’t lead to equitable adult outcomes for those with disabilities, and in fact perpetuates and legitimises the discriminatory way in which we’re encouraged to view ‘ability diversity’ within wider society

The Minutes from your Last Student Council Meeting “She’s banned from Maccy D’s because of that thing with the Crunchie McFlurry…”

7 of the Best KS3/4 Teaching Resources from #TeamEnglish Whether you're looking for resources for a class novel, ideas for writing exercises or just general teaching support, the #TeamEnglish community has you covered...

8 Ways to Streamline and Simplify Your School’s Data Still manually pasting numbers into Word documents? It’s time to automate...

Lessons in School Leadership – Picking your Battles and Closing the Circle on Unfinished Jobs With so many things to oversee as a school leader it's easy to leave things up in the air and lose track of them altogether – make it your mantra to tie up those loose ends

Improve Student Willpower to Get them Engaged When They ‘Just Can’t be Bothered’ If you still think that the last lesson before lunch, or the final session of the day, is a learning ‘dead zone’, there’s something about willpower you need to know, says Gordon Cairns

The new Interim Teacher Assessment Framework (ITAF) changes explained Changes to the ITAF have led to confusion for Y6 teachers, but fear not – Tim Roach is on hand to help

“Traditional ‘Red Pen Marking’ Destroys Teachers’ Work-Life Balance – and Has Little Impact on Student Outcomes” High expectations, impeccable behaviour, no marking and professional respect…who wouldn’t want to work at Bedford Free School?

8 Tips that Will Help you Survive in Teaching – #JustLetMeTeach Forgotten why you ever wanted to be a teacher? Refocus and get back on track with Dr Emma Kell’s wise advice

The 6 essential ingredients of great English teaching in secondary school Of course you’ll give the final recipe your own, unique twist, says Andy Tharby – but get these elements right, and both progress and satisfaction should be guaranteed...

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