Opinion

A new report from the Chartered College of Teaching has gathered evidence from around the world and must inform any decision about how schools are reopened, writes Alison Peacock The widespread closures of schools to all but children of key workers and vulnerable children are unprecedented and the impact on our pupils, teachers and schools […]

As schools settle into more sustained use of online learning tools, attention needs to be paid to teachers’ development and resource needs as well as their students’, writes Patrick Roach It now seems like a lifetime ago that the majority of children and young people’s learning took place at school. The speed and scale of […]

Amid all the challenges thrown up by the current pandemic the government may at least win a reprieve from one pre-existing condition, writes Jack Worth Before the coronavirus outbreak, the secondary teacher labour market in England was in a precarious state. The number of secondary teacher trainees required to maintain supply was high and rising […]

Nobody’s asking anyone to clap for teachers but their incredible efforts to reinvent school deserve better than uninformed public criticism, writes Paul Whiteman I am at my desk a bit earlier than normal today; it is not quite light and in the background the farming programme has just started on radio 4. I can take […]

Schools will reopen to a new world. They have earned the nation’s trust and should be supported to shape it, writes Mike Ion The first thing we need to come to terms with when it comes to schools reopening is that it will take time for students, teachers and parents to readjust. Whatever the ‘new […]

In the second instalment of our series following the impacts of lockdown on the personal and professional lives of educators, Debra Rutley opens up her #lockdowndiary

The second episode of Alex Beard’s The Learning Revolution for BBC Radio 4 falls short of asking the big questions about teaching’s present and future challenges, writes Melissa Benn Since he published Natural Born Learners in 2018 Alex Beard has become something of a one-man explorer of education’s near future. In this second instalment of […]

A new paper looks at what we know about teachers’ evaluation skills and their impact on outcomes. Jonathan Haslam unpicks the detail The answer to this article’s titular question might seem obvious, but a new systematic review has revealed just how little we know about teachers as evaluators. According to the review, evaluation refers to […]

Rebuilding a culture of learning after lockdown will take intentional action, writes Peps Mccrea. Here are four key considerations for getting it right The timeline is unclear, but lockdown will eventually end. The challenges it has brought will dissipate as we return to life as before, but this second transition will be far from carefree […]