Moving from the classroom to online learning presents new challenges, including around assessment and feedback. Many of the principles of good feedback and assessment can still apply to the online environment, they just need to be reframed to fit this new context. Regardless of the setting, there are some key considerations around feedback that teachers […]
Pupils work together in pairs, small groups or as a whole class and co-construct knowledge and understanding, solve problems, and/or create artefacts together. The teacher’s role is to provide a structure for effective learning to take place, and support students as and when necessary. Technology lends itself to supporting this approach through a wide range […]
What’s the idea? Moving from the classroom to online learning presents new challenges, including around assessment and feedback. Many of the principles of good feedback and assessment can still apply to the online environment, they just need to be reframed to fit this new context. Regardless of the setting, there are some key considerations around […]
The second half of the Spring half term has always felt a bit manic. This half term, of course, has been unforgettably altered. I’ve never thought about teaching remotely before, and I’ve never considered how I’d do it – what are my first thoughts? ICT Heroes First, I have to pay tribute to the immense […]
Setting up an online reading group Online reading groups can be a good alternative to face-to-face meetings and while it might not be the same as meeting in the same room with some biscuits to share, they do come with their own advantages. Below we have compiled some suggestions on how to run an online […]
The last week has been a whirlwind of brainstorming, collaborating, and communicating, all in the effort to figure out how to move brick and mortar teachers into an eLearning environment smoothly and to create policies and procedures—that possibly didn’t exist ten days ago—to help support this effort. Some of our teachers have jumped into this […]
Three months down the road from when the novel Coronavirus first emerged, one of the biggest impacts on society, apart from public health, has been on education. The kickstarting of digital pedagogy on such a scale has never been possible before. The Chinese Government’s decision to offer virtual classes on a national scale was the […]
Quizzes and low-stakes assessments are not just good for providing teachers with information about how much a student knows and what they still need to learn to inform future planning – they can also help students take advantage of the benefits of ‘retrieval practice’, where recalling things from memory actually helps to strengthen retention of that […]
I work for the Chartered College as a Research and Learning Specialist and I’m also a mum to three sons aged 1, 7 and 10. Up until last Autumn, I’d been a teacher and Assistant Headteacher in Primary schools for 15 years but I recently left my job in school to start a part-time PhD. […]
Find all open access Impact articles, by theme for your reading groups, here. Reading groups usually bring together a group of interested professionals on a regular basis to discuss different articles and how their findings relate to their own practice. They can be an excellent way to keep in touch with the latest research in […]
This selected reading list is one of three put together relating to the current COVID-19 outbreak. You might also be interested in the list on the the impact of school closures or the list of some free home learning resources. This selected reading list includes resources relating to online, blended, remote and home learning, including […]
The Early Career Framework (ECF) reforms set out a new requirement for a two-year programme of support and development for new teachers after they complete initial teacher training. The ECF was released in January 2019, and became available to new teachers in early roll-out regions and to a select number of other schools from September […]
An understanding of the thinking processes that pupils go through is helpful, from planning lessons to delivery. Literacy tasks, by their very nature, demand focus. Therefore, a consideration of working memory capacity and cognitive load can help you to plan tasks with improved accessibility for all pupils. Retention and recall rely on understanding the information […]
The purpose of reading is to understand text – to construct meaning from the written word. Metacognition is a well-evidenced, key component in enabling pupils to do this effectively (Baker and Beall, 2009; Zabrucky et al., 2015). What does it mean? Metacognition is comprised of two main elements: Metacognitive knowledge: knowing about your cognitive abilities, […]
Education technology is a huge industry, with schools spending large amounts of money on everything from infrastructure to devices, management systems and a wide range of software. However, there remains debate over the value of technology use in the classroom, as well as potential unintended consequences. This page includes links to a range of articles, […]
Chartered College of Teaching ¬∑ Volunteering to teach Having recently qualified to teach English as a foreign language and being unable to teach abroad due to travel restrictions relating to the COVID-19 pandemic, I volunteered my services to Action West London, a charity who have been providing English language courses since 1998 for members […]
Chartered College of Teaching ¬∑ Confident by design: professional development through the lens of self-efficacy History is littered with references to the importance of confidence and the transformative power of positive self-belief. From the Roman Poet Virgil’s ‘They can because they think they can’ to Henry Ford’s ‘If you think you can or think […]
Chartered College of Teaching ¬∑ What are schools for? Rethinking accountability and policy development Like many headteachers in the UK, I am grappling with a new norm in my school on a daily and sometimes hourly basis. However, unlike most headteachers, I have just completed a doctoral research project involving teachers and senior leaders […]
‘Narrowing the gap’ in attainment for pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds remains a key priority in education. This page includes links to a wide range of useful articles, blogs, research reports and resources from different sources (all freely available or available through Chartered College membership) that explore ideas relating to how we can tackle the attainment […]
