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Our Practitioners Must be Prolific Wordsmiths who Immerse Children in Rich Language The richer the language children hear and acquire, the greater their success...

How Should You Teach? Like A Maverick Phil Beadle is here to explain just what that means

KS3 Maths Lesson Plan – Use Leaning Ladders to Explore Triangles Ladders leaning against walls is a classic scenario for mathematics problems and is often used to address topics such as Pythagoras’ theorem and trigonometry. In this maths lesson, the situation of two crossing ladders is used as an opportunity to work on ideas relating to similar triangles. How high will the crossing point be above […]

KS3 Maths Lesson Plan – Use The Page Numbers In A Newspaper To Explore Number Patterns Patterns in numbers arise in many different circumstances in the world around us. Making sense of these with mathematics allows students to use their mathematical knowledge and develop their appreciation of mathematical structure. In this lesson, use number sequences from real situations, such as the way in which the pages are numbered in a newspaper.

KS3 Maths Lesson Plan – Find The Centre Of Enlargement For A Given Shape In this maths lesson, students are asked to decide where the centre of enlargement can go for a given shape with a scale factor of 3 enlargement so that no part of the image will go off the edge of the grid. Solving this problem involves students in intelligent trial and error as they experiment […]

KS3/4 Music Lesson Plan – Bring Java And Bali Into Your Classroom With The Bright And Beautiful Sounds Of Indonesian Gamelan Music ‘To create most western music, we use what is known as a chromatic scale and it contains 12 different notes. However, many non-western traditions use a pentatonic scale, made up of just five different notes, and this is much more user friendly and does not lend itself to accidentally playing ‘wrong’ notes. We will use […]

KS3 English Lesson Plan – Develop Speaking And Listening Skills And Analyse Literary Texts To Create Your Own Drama Performance ‘Dr Spencer Kagan has spent the last 40 years researching and developing a range of cooperative learning structures that provides a fast and effective way to get your new students to gel as a group. They are all based on PIES – Positive, interdependence, Individual accountability, Equal participation, and Simultaneous interaction – which means that […]

KS3 MFL lesson plan – Spooky celebrations across the world Offering insights into other cultures is one of the unique ways in which languages can contribute to the curriculum as it not only opens up the outside world to students but also gives them the chance to reflect on their own culture and values. Almost any context can be given a ‘cultural’ twist, but looking […]

KS3 English Lesson Plan – Investigate The Relationship Between Language Use And Gender How far can the words we choose to use about people affect the way they are seen by society in general? This lesson uses both language and literature examples to discuss the way that word choice reflects values and influences thought. The aim is to introduce the idea that language works to create or emphasise […]

KS3 MFL Lesson Plan – Help Students Learn Their Nouns From Their Verbs With The Language Of The Kitchen Start to appreciate the importance of understanding the function of different parts of speech in a sentence by analysing the ingredients and processes that make up a recipe. Then acquire and/or enhance your dictionary skills and reading strategies so that you can engage with authentic resources.

Engage SEND Students In Literacy Lessons With Multisensory Storytelling This is particularly useful if you are working with children in developing an understanding of new experiences

8 Reasons To Fall In Love With Teaching Again Tom Sherrington is inviting all teachers to talk up the profession – it's surely the best job around

SEND Parents Are Experts When It Comes To Their Children, So Trusting Schools To Do A Good Job Is Hard Over the years I've discovered that other people don’t necessarily have the same sort of expectations for your child as you do

Why Football Is The Perfect Tactic For Getting Students Excited About Literacy Jim Sells explains the perfect lineup of reading, writing and the beautiful game

Last Meeting’s Minutes (Unedited) – Prom Organisation Committee Meeting Organising the award for strongest deodorant and picking a theme where decorations can be bought in the pound shop – who wouldn't want to plan Prom night?

SEND Support – Using Stickmen To Open Up Conversation With An Anxious Child Simple drawings can be the breakthrough you need to help a child feel safe, explains Adele Devine

Why Do So Many Children’s Books Kill Off The Parents? Looking through classic and modern texts for orphans can encourage children to think more deeply about whose story they are reading, explains Huw Powell

Choosing Books For Children That Offer The Right Level Of Challenge Giving children texts that offer just the right level of challenge can raise attainment without damaging their confidence, says Jackson Stenner

How comics boost reading comprehension If children are word-reading but not understanding, graphic texts will help make them masters of meaning and inference...

“Outstanding Progress Isn’t About Gimmicks” – How Hard Work Bred Success At Clacton County High Helen Mulley visits the school that topped the Essex league tables for Progress 8 in 2016, to find out what it’s getting right

Nonsense verse – A gloriously silly KS3 poetry session could have serious benefits for your learners Take your class on the Ning Nang Nong where the cows go bong, and go where the swivy toves gyre and gimble in the wabe

What Eventing Taught Me About Teaching – How Becoming A Student Will Improve Your Pedagogical Practice Six ways you can become a better teacher by learning and developing a skill

Comparing Students’ Maths Results To Each Other Rather Than Fixed Criteria Is A Flightpath To Failure A system that ensures one in three students won’t reach the minimum accepted standards by KS4 can't be right, or fair

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7 funny and heartwarming end-of-school-year celebration videos Sign the year off in style using these hilarious school celebration videos as inspiration...

As Teacher Workload Gets More Demanding Good Will Is Eroded – So One Teacher Is Tackling It Head On "Some staff felt like second class citizens. Breaking down issues between teaching and non-teaching staff was important"

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