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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...

Teaching Negative Numbers – Some History on Embracing Negatives and Directed Number Teaching In the first of a four-part series on teaching directed numbers, Don Steward looks at how various cultures approached negative numbers in mathematics throughout time...

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...

8 of the best percentage increase and decrease teaching resources for KS3 maths Lesson plans, activities and worksheets to help secondary students develop their understanding of percentage change

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...

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...

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[...]

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

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