By Geoff Barton, General Secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) Let’s start with what we know: language matters. There. That’s it. Vocabulary is a huge predictor of how far children from any background will succeed at school and beyond. The words they know will help them to read, understand, gain new […]
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For the first few years of my teaching career, I would set revision lessons without much expectation. If you were going to do a test, you should at least give some chance of success by providing the lesson before for ‘revision’. I would often provide a list of suggested activities that students could pick from: […]
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A petition has recently been published on Change.org about the number of nature words in the Oxford Junior Dictionary. We take customer feedback very seriously and have addressed the most commonly raised concerns below. Like you, we feel strongly that nature is essential to children’s lives and are encouraged to see that this is such […]
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With the summer term well underway, you might be making plans to welcome September’s new Year 7 cohort to school on induction day. With this in mind, we asked former Leader of English (and parent) Jill Carter what advice she’d give to parents whose children are about to start secondary school for the first time. […]
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With the summer term well underway, you might be making plans to welcome September’s new Year 7 cohort to school on induction day. With this in mind, we asked former Leader of English (and parent) Jill Carter what advice she’d give to parents whose children are about to start secondary school for the first time. […]
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In a previous blog post I outlined a very basic memory technique which works by creating a story out of to-be-remembered information. This makes the information more memorable than recalling a list of unrelated words and the technique itself requires no real groundwork, after all, you are just making up a story. Whilst impressive results […]
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I am able to commit a huge amount of information to memory in a very short space of time. I can memorise the order of a shuffled deck of playing cards in less than 2 minutes, a list of 240 random words within a 15-minute time limit and, given an hour, I can memorise the […]
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We were delighted to join over 300 teachers and 40 guest speakers at the University of Oxford’s Mathematical Institute in June for researchED Maths and Science. researchED is an organization with aims that very much complement our own. We therefore jumped at the opportunity to join forces to host a conference that would help to […]
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researchED is proud to announce our first event dealing specifically with maths and sciences in education. We’ve teamed up with Oxford University Press to build a day for everyone involved in these two key areas. researchED was started in 2013 in response to what I saw as a real hunger in the teaching profession for […]
Read moreOur final coverage of project/dissertation work ends with the presentation or viva. This will be the final part of your project/dissertation and the last opportunity to gain vital marks towards the module. You will most likely have a time limit for the presentation so ensure that you run through it a few times in front […]
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