Dr Nihara Krause, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Founder & CEO stem4 Winston Churchill is quoted as saying, ‘If you are going through hell, keep going’ – a depiction of the tenacity and determination he so clearly demonstrated for success. Given nearly two years of disruption through the pandemic, how can educators support their students to ‘keep […]
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You can find lots of great advice and practical support for students and parents on our A Level hub ! Mock exams are high-stakes tests, especially this year when there is the chance that they will be used as a backup to determine grades if exams are cancelled again. Typically, you’d be asked to do one or two […]
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You can find lots of great advice and practical support for students and parents on our A Level hub ! Goals are important and we all have them – and January is a very popular time to discuss them. In Year 13 your goals are likely to be things like “Do well in my A Level exams” or “Get […]
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The wellbeing of both students and staff alike has really been brought to the forefront of conversations in the last few years, not least because of the impact of the pandemic. It is true that schools are finding themselves to be held responsible for an ever-growing list of expectations, with wellbeing being one of them […]
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As we head towards Mock season for our GCSE groups, we are still unsure of the importance of this set of exams. In the past, Mocks gave students a little bit of the experience of what to expect in the real exam season, but this time, they could contribute to their actual GCSE grade if the examinations get cancelled for the third year running due to the Covid-19 global Pandemic. So, Mocks are more important than ever but how do we prepare our students best?
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MCQs are a quick way to test knowledge and refresh past topics! This issue of VoicED focuses on why they are so important, including top revision tips and more!
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Over the last 10 years, the teaching profession has been exposed, and to some extent attempted to embed, the principles of effective revision. For many staff the names of Ebbinghaus, Dunlosky and Willingham have become familiar and their work and principles are now found in the ‘Golden Thread’ of the ITT Core Curriculum, the Early […]
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“…there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know…” (United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, 2002) The Latin origin of the word revision suggests the student must “look again”. Sadly, we know that just ‘looking’ at work again is of little use. However, I’d go further – the whole concept […]
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How do we support key year groups, now and on our return to school? and what do we do for those who can’t return at the same time? These are the questions we all wish we knew the answers to, aren’t they? The truth is I don’t think that anyone has the magic fix, that […]
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Adam Boxer, one of the authors of the new Oxford Revise series, explains how its Knowledge, Retrieval, Practice model leads to truly effective revision. If you’re anything like me, one of the questions you’ll be asked the most by students is how they should revise. Most students and parents don’t really know how to do it. So […]
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