Curriculum in the Early Years Ofsted’s consultation about its new education inspection framework (2019), with its focus on the curriculum, is leading Early Years practitioners to wonder what a curriculum for the youngest children might look like. It is, perhaps, useful to begin the discussion by outlining some of the things that we do not […]
Reading with young children is an important activity to support early language and literacy, and how we share books with children can magnify its impact. During shared reading, adults and children talk about and around the book, rather than focus just on the text. The adult encourages children to play an active, rather than passive […]
What’s the idea? With an extended national lockdown, many children in the Early Years have been out of their provision for months. Remote support for young children’s development and learning is difficult to organise. Play is central to young children’s learning. Different aspects of the child’s development link together through play and first-hand experiences like […]
This is the second webinar in a series of joint events between NALDIC, the National Association for Language development in the Curriculum, and the Chartered College of Teaching, the professional body of teachers in England. During this webinar, Prof Victoria Murphy (Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of Oxford; Chair, NALDIC) explored how multilingual pupils can […]
Digital media, including children’s apps, are increasingly used in early years settings. As many as 80,000 apps claim to be “educational” (Healthy Children, 2018) but the app market is unregulated. Research shows that the majority of children’s apps advertised as “educational” in fact lack educational value (Ólafsson, Livingstone, & Haddon, 2013). This means that selecting […]
Remote online learning has arguably become the new norm in light of the current pandemic. However, how appropriate is this for children with special educational needs and siabilities (SEND) in the Early Years? This short article aims to offer alternative ways that educators can encourage learning at home without the use of IT. Evidence suggests […]
What’s the idea? Remote online learning has become the new norm in light of the pandemic. But how appropriate is this for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) in the Early Years? This guide offers alternative ways in which educators can encourage learning at home without the use of IT. What does the […]
Chartered College of Teaching ¬∑ Children’s agency and the curriculum The curriculum is a vital part of education because it has such an important influence on what learners experience in classrooms during the school day. Research on curriculum aims, knowledge and control have been, and continue to be, central to what are known as […]
Chartered College of Teaching ¬∑ Migrant children with special educational needs This article was first published as part of a global conversation about the future of teaching. Migrant children, defined as children born in another country than the one they live in, currently constitute around four percent of the under-15 population in Europe (Janta and […]
Around the world, the COVID-19 pandemic is challenging leaders to step up like never before. Senior leaders of government, healthcare, schools and business are in the spotlight – but the need for leadership does not stop with them. People everywhere can accept the challenge of leadership, the challenge to step up in their community, workplace […]
Education has faced profound and rapid change during the COVID-19 pandemic, with large-scale reactive measures introduced to ensure continuity of learning. While some schools have established integrated infrastructures whereby each student is expected to have, or is provided with a personal mobile device, the majority have relied on students utilising readily available home devices. Device […]
Online Learning ¬∑ Testing and spacing: effective learning strategies for the classroom Educational practices inspired and supported by cognitive science are increasing in popularity. This can be seen in the worldwide increase in both academic (e.g. Roediger and Karpicke, 2018) and practice-oriented publications (e.g. Surma et al., 2019). Apropos these developments, we highlight two […]
This is an abridged version of the introduction to Poverty in Education Across the UK, edited by the authors. Permission to publish this extract is granted by the publisher. Online Learning ¬∑ Poverty in education across the UK: a comparative analysis of policy and place Poverty and place matter to children’s education (Lupton, […]
Chartered College of Teaching ¬∑ Developing teachers’ confidence in enhanced e-learning at an all-through school Recent times have prompted profound change in education, specifically due to school closures and the migration to e-learning. This paper discusses the need to ascertain staff confidence in e-learning before discussing how e-learning provision may be enhanced. The majority […]
Chartered College of Teaching ¬∑ Continuous professional development and career progression in mid-career teachers Recent data suggests that even though there are some early signs of progress, teacher recruitment and retention are likely to remain an issue over the next few years. While teacher retention improved slightly in 2018/19, recruitment for the secondary sector […]
Chartered College of Teaching ¬∑ Supporting students to become self-regulated learners: teaching metacognition matters One of the authors of this article, Paul A Kirschner, featured in a webinar about ‘How Learning Happens’. We recorded the video for you to watch back. When a teacher announces the deadline for an upcoming test, students are instantly […]
In recent times, nature has become the focus of many people’s attention, not least of our young people. The climate crisis and destruction of the planet due to human activity is, regrettably, familiar headline news. At the same time, particularly because of the lockdowns, we have become increasingly appreciative of the solace, reassurance, beauty and […]
Here and now Over the past 12 months, words like ‘lockdown’, ‘pandemic’ and ‘coronavirus’ have entered daily usage and we are now all too familiar with exponential curves tracing out the misery of lives and livelihoods endangered and tragically lost. It’s a similar story in most other countries around the world. It sometimes feels as […]
This article was first published as part of a global conversation on the future of teaching. The COVID-19 pandemic has cast a well-documented spotlight on inadequate systems and infrastructure in education. Across the U.S., for example, student engagement has plummeted (Herold and Yettick Kurtz, 2020) as schools and districts navigate the transition to remote learning. […]
This articles was first published as part of a global conversation on the future of teaching. It’s been a tough year for optimists. Granted, it’s been a really tough year for everyone. But optimists have been hit pretty hard in all of this. Politics, the COVID-19 pandemic and the guilt and uncertainty around class closures […]
