Principles of Instruction
Effective instruction |Expert teacher |Memory |Metacognition Bookmark(0) Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin In 2012, Barack Rosenshine published the Principles of Instruction: a set of 10 research-based principles of instruction, along with suggestions for classroom practice. The principles come from three sources: (a) research in cognitive science (b) research on master teachers, and […]
Distance learning and digital technology: Adapting a microblogging tool to develop online collaboration
Chartered College of Teaching · Distance learning and digital technology The sudden shift towards distance learning has led many teachers to seek out a variety of distance-learning tools, such as Google Classroom, Skype or Zoom. These tools bring many benefits, but their efficacy as a partial replacement for face-to-face teaching is undergoing a severe practical […]
Children’s agency and the curriculum
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 […]
Migrant Children with Special Educational Needs – emerging findings from a recent review and their implications for educational practice
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 […]
Purpose and leadership in education and beyond
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 […]
Testing and spacing: Effective learning strategies for the classroom
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 […]
Poverty in education across the UK: A comparative analysis of policy and place
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, […]
Parental support and access for home-based elearning
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 […]
Continuous professional development and career progression in mid-career teachers
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 […]
Supporting students to become self-regulated learners: Teaching metacognition matters
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 […]
Can exam grades be accurate?
‘Assessments should be accurate for 90% of students plus or minus one grade’ At a hearing of the Education Select Committee enquiring into summer 2020’s grading fiasco, Ofqual’s Executive Director of Strategy, Risk and Research stated that: ‘There is a benchmark that is used in assessment evidence that any assessment should be accurate for 90% […]
Lessons from lockdown: Releasing future possibilities for teacher professionalism
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 […]
Leading and implementing equity-focused responses through and beyond COVID-19
This article was first published as part of a global conversation about the future of teaching. Online and blended learning models are likely to stay, as global full or partial school closures endure in the new academic year. Yet, challenges encountered in the early experience of education in lockdown compel us to think about what […]
Grounding for Mindfulness Technique (GfMT): A missing link between learner wellbeing and education
This article was first published as part of a global conversation about the future of teaching. Current education is set around academic achievements, competition and educating for exams, which has caused an attitude of selective learning (is this relevant for my exam?). This has caused a lack of development of the whole person and the […]
What role will digital technologies play in teaching and learning in the future?
When the country went into lockdown on 23rd March 2020, I can honestly say that I had never been busier. As Director of Technology for Learning for the Chiltern Learning Trust and on the Senior Leadership Team for Denbigh High School in Luton, my services had never been so suddenly in demand. I have long […]
Society during and post-COVID-19: Reimagining educational ecologies to improve schooling for all
The world is experiencing first-hand the critical role schools have in shaping and contributing to society. The unfolding, often unpredictable, developments of COVID-19 is testing society in a number of ways. COVID-19 is pushing educational systems to re-think and drastically change how schooling is provided (Sun, Tang and Zuo, 2020). With such a large and […]
Investing in educators is the real key to continuity of learning
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. […]
Leadership Lemonade: A model of national and international collaboration to turn crisis management into new opportunities
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 […]
Formal and informal professional learning, Dr Yue-on Ko
Watch this 2 minute video about effective approaches to online and digital learning. Dr Yue-on Ko is the Assistant Professor of Education Policy and Leadership at the Hong Kong Institute of Education. In this video, Dr Ko talks about sharing research and keeping in contact with schools during this time. Take some time to reflect […]
Multilingual Thinking in Multicultural Classrooms
Chartered College of Teaching ¬∑ Multilingual thinking in multicultural classrooms Schools are microcosms of society, and as such they draw upon the multilingual and multicultural richness and heritages of the societies in which they are based, and of every individual that is part of their community at any one time. I have always been […]