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With many students starting their teacher education journey in Scotland, Colin McGill offers some words of advice and says it’s an exciting time to join the profession

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Beyond Survival: The New Teacher Podcast · Episode

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Professor Lindsay Paterson talks to our Writer at Large about the decline and fall of the once great Scottish school

The theme of so much of my recent blogging and discussions in schools has been the very real challenge of teaching everyone in a class effectively – simultaneously.  I still don’t t…

Ten years ago, I read an article in the New York Times with dismay. It was about how clickers were all the rage in schools across the country. It ...

Recently, I heard a teacher say how good they were at building relationships in their classroom. They suggested that their subject (PE) meant they found it easier to do so and that as a result the …

Writing A Better Multiple-Choice Question: What Does Research Indicate?

I have had a paper that I have co-written with my PhD supervisors accepted for publication in Educational Psychology Review. Having studied the copyright statement, I am clear that I am able to pub…

I love a good teaching and learning book, as anyone who has popped into my classroom or tried to find something on my desk can attest. I also really enjoy attending research conferences (I’m …

Quick heads-up: this blog uses a lot of technical jargon that you may be unfamiliar with. The jargon springs from the work of Doug Lemov and Paul Bambrick-Santoyo, and if you wish to know more, the…

Quick heads-up: this blog uses a lot of technical jargon that you may be unfamiliar with. The jargon springs from the work of Doug Lemov and Paul Bambrick-Santoyo, and if you wish to know more, the…

Those first few lessons with a class are a golden period for setting out expectations. You have the opportunity to establish routines, norms that will then become their habits over time. Some of th…

Revision, revision and more revision…. with exams around the corner, teachers are busy planning and innovating revision activities. Meanwhile, pupils are busy revising (at least, in theory; s…

Some of the most durable learning takes place when students use what they know and practice their knowledge—just like practicing an instrument or a language.

The exit ticket is an often used method of assessment in the classroom. But is it being use effectively?

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This follows on my previous post about effective CPD Over the last year or so I’ve seen some fabulous teaching. From Reception to Year 13 and FE settings of many kinds; there’s so much …

Setting students up for success

A struggling school's problems are often down to a focus on the wrong things, says secondary headteacher Bruce Robertson

A is for active learning . That is to say, learning that involves the students doing something, rather than sitting and listening to a teacher or instructor talk/lecture. Of course, it’s a little dif...

A is for active learning . That is to say, learning that involves the students doing something, rather than sitting and listening to a teacher or instructor talk/lecture. Of course, it’s a little dif...

What can we learn from widespread dissatisfaction with the Curriculum for Excellence?

What can we learn from widespread dissatisfaction with the Curriculum for Excellence?

Delivering effective explanations in the classroom is an art that requires planning, engagement and reflection. Find out more in this guide.

Delivering effective explanations in the classroom is an art that requires planning, engagement and reflection. Find out more in this guide.

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com You’re right to be interested in retrieval practice. Retrieval practice is the use of low-stakes testing (written/verbal questions) to benefit pupils’ long-term memor…

Amarbeer Singh Gill shares some of the theory and explores how we can make worked examples work for us.

Behaviour Management Strategies from Bill Rogers Without doubt the greatest personal challenge I’ve faced as a teacher was moving from the Sixth Form college in Wigan where I started teaching…

Mike is teaching his class how to translate Spanish sentences about different types of transportation. Following his explanation, he has prepared a Check for Understanding (CfU) consisting of 8 sli…

Almost a year after I wrote my first and until now only post on my work with trainee teachers as a teach educator using the TLaC Brighten Lines technique, that post recently received a boost when A…