Behaviour: What are you permitting? with Sam Strickland
Chartered College of Teaching, Bristol Network event FREE online talk with Sam Strickland, author of ‘The Behaviour Manual: An Educator’s Guidebook’. Hosted by Dr Steve Murray, Lead Practitioner for Data and Research at Orchard School Bristol. Resources Webinar playback and resources: #ECSeries: Managing Behaviour in the Classroom with Amy Forrester Webinar playback: ‘Teach Like a […]
Does question difficulty impact the effect of retrieval practice/testing effect?
Lewis Adams (CTeach), Assistant Headteacher, UK Increasingly, education is becoming about understanding and applying cognitive science in the classroom. The new Early Career Framework (ECF) actively seeks to train our new teachers to teach their students to ‘retrieve information from memory’ (DfE, 2019, p. 11), and Ofsted have now defined learning as ‘an alteration in […]
#ECSeries: Managing Behaviour in the Classroom with Amy Forrester
In this webinar Amy Forrester shares her key takeaways on behaviour management. This webinar will focus on practical, evidence informed strategies regarding managing behaviour in the classroom. Amy will cover a number of approaches, as well as exploring the ways in which we view behaviour, and how these are best deployed to help us all […]
Supporting students to thrive in their transition to university by enhancing the curricula with our head, hand and heart
‘Today I’m gonna talk a bit about the jump from school to university. I call it a jump because that’s exactly how it feels. Like a leap. With your eyes shut. Off a cliff. At night. Into shark infested waters. At least that’s how it felt for me the first time.’ (Second-year student on their […]
Pedagogy and possibility thinking
Cremin T, Burnard P, Craft A (2006) Pedagogy and possibility thinking in the early years. International Journal of Thinking Skills and Creativity 1(2): 108–119. Introduction It is important that children and young adults learn how to think creatively and innovatively. But what does creative thinking look like and how do you teach it? This exploratory […]
What makes the biggest difference to a child’s success in early learning?
Chartered College of Teaching ¬∑ What makes the biggest difference to a child’s success in early learning? What makes the biggest difference to a child’s success in early learning? This is a key question, especially now that we are in the middle of the COVID-19 crisis and children’s early education is being disrupted. It’s […]
Dialogic and shared reading for young children to support language and literacy
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 […]
Webinar: How to select high quality educational apps for preschoolers
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Connecting the curriculum to nature can deepen learning
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 […]
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 […]
The role of the teacher as facilitator of out-of-school learning
In some international education systems, the role of teachers and school leaders is seen as largely concerned with what takes place during the hours of the school day and contained within the physical boundary of the school. Indeed, in most societies there are individuals who share this view. They tend to argue that teachers should […]
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 […]
The potential of digital technology in education
Chartered College of Teaching ¬∑ The potential of digital technology in education School closures in Spring 2020 focused attention on the potential of digital technologies in education. Teachers, learners and schools have needed to develop new strategies for learning in their own unique context with the time, space, skills and resources available to them. […]
Developing pupils‚ and teachers‚ digital skills, Liz Jones
Watch this 2 minute video about developing pupils’ and teachers’ digital skills. Liz Jones is the Learning Technology Manager at The British School, The Netherlands. In this video, Liz talks about the skills that teachers and pupils need in today’s schools. Take some time to reflect on their perspective. Share your experiences with educators […]
Emergency remote teaching vs. online learning
Chartered College of Teaching ¬∑ Emergency remote teaching vs online learning This research summary discusses a recently published article comparing emergency remote teaching and online learning (Hodges et al., 2020). Millions of students around the world have been learning remotely since schools and FE providers closed in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Teachers have […]
Can turning on the subtitles really improve the literacy levels of millions of children?
Chartered College of Teaching ¬∑ Can turning on the subtitles really improve the literacy levels of millions of children? The recently launched ‘Turn on the Subtitles’ (TOTS) campaign is supported by partner organisations such as National Literacy Trust and Berkeley University. It encourages broadcasters, parents and policymakers to turn on the subtitles during programming […]
What does effective professional learning – for teachers and school leaders – look like in the 21st century?
Chartered College of Teaching ¬∑ What does effective professional learning look like in the 21st century? For secondary school teachers, I have always found the expression ‘professional learning’ somewhat vague and amorphous. It lacks the enchantment, essence and energy of what I know from my own experience of growing as a subject teacher and […]