News Teachers must abandon rote learning, says top neuropsychologist Teachers should use a “rich and complex” understanding of memory to improve how pupils learn – throwing out rote-learning… Jess Staufenberg 8y Jess Staufenberg 8y News Takeovers and brand new academies – King’s Group is laying its foundations in England An academy trust founded by a private firm that runs schools in Europe and the Americas will take over… Alix Robertson 8y Alix Robertson 8y News School’s success not possible without young staff, says head Having “very young members of staff” who are prepared to implement a new system of behaviour management has been… Jess Staufenberg 8y Jess Staufenberg 8y News Teach critical thought, says Hillsborough disaster academic Teaching pupils to think critically about “truth” is as important as ever, according a top academic who investigated corrupted… Jess Staufenberg 8y Jess Staufenberg 8y News Ofsted hopes to move away from safeguarding ‘compliance’ checks Ofsted wants its safeguarding procedures to have “impact”, rather than merely checking that schools are “compliant”, an inspector has… Jess Staufenberg 8y Jess Staufenberg 8y News Exclusive Ofsted heaps praise on ‘much improved’ Diocese of Ely academy trust A large academy trust has been praised by Ofsted for its “journey of systematic improvement” after a focused inspection… Pippa Allen-Kinross 8y Pippa Allen-Kinross 8y News Revealed: The two schools ‘double-bounced’ between sponsors Crawshaw Academy and Wigan UTC are the only two schools to have been rebrokered twice since records began, the… Freddie Whittaker 8y Freddie Whittaker 8y News Academy trusts will appear in January’s league tables Next year, the public will be able to see for themselves how well multi-academy trusts are doing in the… Freddie Whittaker 8y Freddie Whittaker 8y News Exclusive Sponsors for WCAT schools have ‘variable’ school improvement record The government needs to explain why it picked certain trusts as sponsors for the schools that belonged to the… Jess Staufenberg 8y Jess Staufenberg 8y News EEF seeks schools for ‘rapid-marking’ and handwriting trials The Education Endowment Foundation is looking for around 500 schools throughout England to take part in four new trials… Alix Robertson 8y Alix Robertson 8y News Calls to boycott new baseline assessment trials – which won’t even start until 2019 Schools and parents are being encouraged to boycott trials of a new reception baseline assessment, two years before it… Alix Robertson 8y Alix Robertson 8y News Greening reminds teacher pay body to be ‘flexible’ on rises Justine Greening has asked the School Teachers’ Review Body, which makes recommendations for teacher’s salaries, to consider a “more… Jess Staufenberg 8y Jess Staufenberg 8y Newer 1 715 716 717 718 719 720 721 722 723 724 725 1,024 Older
