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‘Beyond the Plateau’: The Case for an Institute of Advanced Teaching, published by the IPPR last week, identifies probably the key school-level challenge in improving educational outcomes and...
Continue reading blog postThis blog post follows up my initial thoughts concerning opportunities for change in August 2015 (https://www.bera.ac.uk/blog/an-opportunity-for-change). At that time, the opportunities in...
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I’m currently reviewing some guidance as to how to make lecturing notes/teaching materials as accessible as possible. It is, of course, important to be as accessible to all as possible, but I am...
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A recently completed doctoral research study (Dalladay, 2014) has explored the role of music teacher biography in the planning of musical activities in the secondary school classroom and its...
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The practice of ‘differentiation’ in a whole-class setting is an established concept and regarded as being an essential feature of effective pedagogy. As Kerry (2002, p.82) points...
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There is something both alluring and disquieting about theories which can be summed up as a catchy combination of letters and numbers. They create a hook, something which we can engage with, may...
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Labelling and notions of fixed ability are prevalent in our education system. Students are divided into groups according to their prior attainment and ‘appropriate’ work is provided as a...
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Launched in England from 2010, Teaching Schools are intended to drive improvement across the education system by forming partnerships or ‘alliances’ with other schools and providers to share...
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There have been a lot of monster metaphors in recent blog posts about Learning Styles [ http://www.tes.com.c.tes.ent.platform.sh/news/blog/why-does-idea-learning-styles-keep-getting-resurrected...
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The School Direct Research Project undertaken by a team of academics from Manchester Metropolitan University concludes five years of research into the effects of school–led training on the...
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One of the features of the school improvement landscape over the past two decades has been a focus on developing school leadership and how this leadership is used to empower teachers in the quest...
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In their excoriating analysis of The Blunders of our Governments, the political scientists Anthony King and Ivor Crewe offer twelve case studies, or 'horror stories', as they call them, from the...
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