<p>In this EMC webinar we look beyond quizzes, stickers and certificates to think about how we might promote a genuine love of reading in as many students as possible. <em>NB: This is a repeat…

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Editorial: A national institution for this overlooked artform shows it is finally getting the recognition it deserves

Editorial: A national institution for this overlooked artform shows it is finally getting the recognition it deserves

Full day teacher conference, featuring keynotes, presentations, workshops and interviews exploring both talk and drama in their own right, as well as and looking at how they intersect.

An English teacher sets out how he is required to teach by his senior leaders - and what it is doing to students

Claude Shannon's groundbreaking information theory focused on getting a message from A to B. We can use its principles to think about classroom communication: a

An English teacher sets out how he is required to teach by his senior leaders - and what it is doing to students

A school librarian faced a disciplinary hearing and scores of books were removed from her school library after she stocked Laura Bates’ Men Who Hate Women

This is an approach which I have used successfully when revising clusters of poetry for GCSE. (Apologies for any parts which seem commonplace or obvious.) The basic idea is familiar – to prac…

This is an approach which I have used successfully when revising clusters of poetry for GCSE. (Apologies for any parts which seem commonplace or obvious.) The basic idea is familiar – to prac…

‘Reading for pleasure’ is suddenly a topic of lively and interesting debate. What is it? What should ‘it’ be called? What is its value? Where should it sit within education? The discussion is focus…

‘Reading for pleasure’ is suddenly a topic of lively and interesting debate. What is it? What should ‘it’ be called? What is its value? Where should it sit within education? The discussion is focus…

Revising for GCSE using drama strategies

A lot is being written and published at the moment on adaptive teaching, and particularly on how ‘checking for understanding’ happens in classrooms. It strikes me that some of the discourse risks o…

I see a lot of explaining happening in classrooms, and I did a lot of explaining as a teacher. It’s a key aspect of instruction, which has been much theorised and written about. For what it’s worth…

How ‘efficiency’ derailed education

I see a lot of explaining happening in classrooms, and I did a lot of explaining as a teacher. It’s a key aspect of instruction, which has been much theorised and written about. For what it’s worth…

Classroom strategies for the explicit teaching of spoken expression When we think about how to develop pupils’ talk in the classroom, it is natural to focus on the ‘opportunities’ we’re provi…