An estimated 40% of children aged four to 16 years old across England and Wales have sleep issues As a primary school teacher, morning conversations with parents often revolve around how well each child slept the night before. Comments such as ‘he has been up since 2am’ and ‘she is really tired today – good […]
Title: Children as agents of social and community change: Enhancing youth empowerment through participation in a school-based social activism project Published: Education, Citizenship and Social Justice (2018) Vol. 13(1), pp. 3– 18 Authors: Susan Torres-Harding, Roosevelt University Ashley Baber, Loyola University Chicago Julie Hilvers, Roosevelt University Nakisha Hobbs, Village Leadership Academy Michael Maly, Roosevelt University What […]
Title: The Play’s the Thing: Experimentally Examining the Social and Cognitive Effects of School Field Trips to Live Theatre Performances Published: Educational Researcher (2018). Vol. 47(4), pp. 246– 254. 2018 Authors: Jay P. Greene (Professor of Education, University of Arkansas) Heidi H. Erickson (Doctoral Fellow, University of Arkansas) Angela R. Watson (Distinguished Doctoral Fellow, University of […]
Pendle Vale College (11-16) is an average-sized mixed secondary school (with 1,050 students) in the deprived area of Nelson in Lancashire. The proportion of students from a minority ethnic background and those whose first language is not English are well above the national average. Over a third of our school population is eligible for pupil premium […]
The heightened interest around teacher recruitment and retention in the last few years (Doherty and Gerrard, 2016; Lynch et al., 2016; DfE, 2017; Ward, 2017) has given rise to the timeliness of a report published by the NFER and the Nuffield Foundation. Is the Grass Greener Beyond Teaching? (Bamford and Worth in 2017) presents a robust, […]
‘But I don’t know how to revise.’ Sound familiar? Of course, it does. It’s a common phrase we hear from our students when it comes to exam preparation. It can also serve as a reminder that it is vital we consider not just the content of what we teach, but also how students learn the […]
If you gave me a £1bn for education, I’d put it into CAMHS. Sam Freedman on student mental health, policy under Gove and educational equality.
A project to develop and encourage CTS skills at university, for application in the classroom Not everything you read is true. Advertisements often make extravagant claims, the internet abounds with ‘fake news’ and it’s often necessary to read between the lines to get at the ‘truth’. Indeed, to make decisions, to understand the world around […]
This article is about the pursuit of excellence, creativity and innovation in further education (FE). An Open Futures approach to learning and teaching, particularly involving askit, has been transformative to the community of learners at Central Bedfordshire College (CBC). The impact of philosophical enquiry (askit) is evident in the College’s 98% positive progression to employment […]
The Chartered College of Teaching does not need a patron saint but if it did, Lawrence Stenhouse would be my choice. He is one of its founding fathers and guiding spirits, though he died over 30 years ago. He is mentioned once in the first issue of Impact as a ‘late great’ and his work […]
Ross Morrison McGill talks CPD, wellbeing and taking back control. It’s important teachers get connected and start collaborating. We talk all things education with Ross Morrison McGill, aka Teacher Toolkit.
It feels like a lifetime since I used to teach secondary science, although when I did, by far my favourite topic to teach was genetics. I loved the challenge of building concrete understanding out of abstract concepts and the sense of wonder that would emerge as students began, for the first time, to get a […]
This article is published as part of Impact with kind permission from BMJ Publishing Group. The article appears here in full. Health care professionals are increasingly required to base their practice on the best available evidence. In the first article of the series, I described basic strategies that could be used to search the medical […]
Professor Becky Allen talks about everything from teacher training to school admissions and data.
Sometimes it’s worth repeating the obvious, just in case anyone missed it. Everyone should watch The Wire, Scottish hopes of footballing success are rarely fulfilled, and Tim Shanahan’s website is one of the best sources of information about literacy on the internet. Shanahan is Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and has […]
For two years I had responsibility for developing the quality of teaching and learning at the primary school in West Sussex I worked at. One of our greatest successes came from developing a coaching programme which was tailored to individual teachers, highly personalised and prioritised across the whole school. Why teachers need coaches My philosophy […]
I first developed an interest in metacognition when I studied neurology as part of my degree. Since then, I’ve incorporated it into my teaching practice as I think it helps pupils make progress. Metacognition is described by Tarrant and Holt (2016) as thinking about how we learn and how we think. In the classroom, metacognition […]
In our state-funded school, Southend High School for Boys, the primary purpose of leadership is to create an environment where others thrive (Sergiovanni, 1992). Our school is located on the outskirts of London and serves an economically and socially diverse community. We have 1,200 students, aged between 11 and 18, and have secured a national […]
Teachers spend a lot of time thinking about difference. We break down data into sub-groups, plan lessons to support and extend, and consider what extra we might do for students falling behind. But should we spend more time thinking about what students have in common? Might a rush to differentiate mean we spend less time […]
Teaching has always been demanding – but it seems to be getting worse. Workload is one of the major causes of driving some 10% of teachers in the UK to leave the profession each year. In the last two years, 90% of teachers have thought about leaving, according to a survey of over 16,000 members […]
