YouTube video by Teach Smith

Over the past few years, we have been working on how we can use booklets effectively. With Literature texts, there is so much you can do. Th...

Do pupils need to know about ‘working memory’ or ‘procrastination’? Will a ‘study skills curriculum’, or a revision programme, really make a vital difference? Each year it is common to see annual pla...

I do a lot of curriculum work. For quite a while now I’ve been trying to articulate something for myself with little success. This blog post has been invariably a Twitter post, a very long thread, and...

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This post unpacks a typical approach to reading a challenging text, in this case in a geography lesson. It also describes a number of practices associated with strong ‘adaptive teaching’. Reading chal...