Education is fast moving, with new ideas, recycled ideas, and changes in the political landscape which feed into curriculum change and inevitable examination changes. A rising hot topic is ‘stretch and challenge’, but what exactly is it? As part of the Teaching and Learning group in my school we have been exploring ‘Stretch and Challenge’ […]
Read moreDi spoke on developing great teaching through Lesson Study at Oxford University Press’ Developing Great Teaching Conference in London on 23rd June, hosted in collaboration with the Teacher Development Trust, NAHT and NAHT Edge. Here she follows up her seminar. You’ll find a selection of resources and videos from the day on our website. ‘A systematic and integrated approach to staff development, that focuses on the professional learning of […]
Read moreI have been mulling over the Government whitepaper ‘Educational Excellence Everywhere’ , all 128 pages (!), and have been struck by the clear recognition of the role and importance of CPD in achieving the Government’s aim. In this paper, presented by Nicky Morgan, it clearly states that the: “… quality of teaching is more important to pupil outcomes […]
Read more17th September saw the publication of the final assessment information from the DFE. This included the following: The Final Report of the Commission on Assessment without Levels The Government’s Response to the Commission’s Final Report Interim Teacher Assessment Frameworks for end of Key Stage 1 and end of Key Stage 2 In the next two blog posts we will attempt to give you a brief overview of what the information contained and what impact this information will […]
Read more190 million questions were answered during the 2015 Language Perfect Championship. As I mentioned in my previous post, Education Perfect promised to donate money to help people in Nepal for every student that achieved a Gold Award this year, so here is an update on #GoldForNepal! More than 5,000 students received Gold and Elite awards […]
Read moreThis week I’ve been thinking about changes in language. The heart ♥ emoji was chosen as global word for 2014.You might like to talk to your pupils about the first photo in this article from the Guardian, particularly as Valentine’s Day approaches? The article says: ‘Is there a global word for 2014, uniting us all, no […]
Read moreThere have been a lot of interesting articles about the teaching of languages in the news recently. If you are looking for something new to use on the European Day of Languages (26th September), then you might consider this article from the Guardian. I’m sure you’ll agree that inspiring lifelong learning is really important. Extracts from this article could be used to […]
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