Teaching Practice

How to support staff to become better teachers by improving classroom practice and keeping an eye on the latest pedagogy. Find out what methods of teaching help children to make the most progress.

• “Learning Power is the Teaching that will Most Help Your Pupils Tomorrow,” says Professor Guy Claxton

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  • Professor Guy Claxton tells us why too many schools today are neglecting the teaching that will be most helpful for pupils tomorrow…
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  Summative Testing Overuse Narrows the Curriculum and Adds to Teacher Workload

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  • Without clarity as to its purpose, primary assessment will only sap teachers’ time and not tell us what we need to know, says Will Millard

• “If Music And Creative Subjects Get Marginalised, It Will Be A Sad Day”

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  • It’s time for heads and policymakers to stop starving music education of resources and start paying attention to the tremendous good it can do, writes Paul McManus…
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  How ‘High-Expectations Teaching’ has Transformed our Primary School

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  • One deputy head shares the transformative effect that High Expectations teaching has had within her village primary
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  Appraise, Train And Develop Your Staff With Standards Tracker’s ‘Little And Often’ Approach

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  • Educate tells us how its Standards Tracker system can make staff appraisals a more effective tool for driving school improvement
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  Educate – The Inside Story

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  • Educate CEO, James de Bass looks back on how a business that started out supplying a wide array of school support services became the provider of one of the leading teacher performance management and school improvement solutions
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  Streamline your English Marking and Cut Down Teacher Workload

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  • Fed up with marking against lists of exacting criteria? Just pick your favourite stories and take the rest of the day off, says Jon Brunskill...
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  Nicky Morgan talks Character Education and her Days at the DfE

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  • The former Education Secretary discusses her enthusiasm for character education and shares some reflections on her days at the DfE...
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  EdTech Is Needed More Than Ever – But The Resources Just Aren’t There

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  • If schools are to use EdTech solutions more effectively, the government needs to ‘Resource Our Schools’…
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  Don’t Cut The ICT Budget – Teachers Need Computing Training

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  • Schools need to maximise the learning tech they already have – and for that, you need the right know-how...