Inclusion

Tips for creating a neurodiversity-inclusive classroom

Marking the end of autism awareness month, Georgia Fielding and James Grant set out some classroom-friendly tips for neurodiversity-inclusive…

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Georgia Fielding and James Grant
Opinion: Sustainability

Sustainability strategy: High aspirations alone won’t fly

Governors stand ready to put sustainability at the heart of our schools, writes Emma Knights, but they’ll need more…

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Emma Knights
Pupil premium

The pupil premium reforms we need for a post-Covid recovery

An increase in pupil premium funding next year is welcome, writes Russell Hobby, but the policy needs significant improvements…

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Russell Hobby
Schools
Analysis of government figures shows the proportion of lessons taught by non-specialist teachers

Schools can help eradicate outdated myth that physics isn’t for girls

Recent comments by ‘Britain’s strictest headteacher’ suggesting girls ‘naturally’ don’t like physics, are damaging and outdated, writes Rachel Youngman

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Rachel Youngman
The Knowledge

Research: How can formative assessment lead to progress?

A new randomised controlled trial shows promising results for helping teachers develop their formative assessment skills, writes Jake Anders

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Jake Anders
Careers

We can’t afford our chaotic approach to work-readiness

Simple steps could transform young people’s work-readiness, writes Adrian Lyons, if only political leaders were willing to put the…

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Adrian Lyons
Opinion: Sustainability

Climate strategy? Let your students lead the way

The DfE’s climate strategy is welcome, write Dawn Haywood and Lucas Ewen, but students are in many ways a…

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Dawn Haywood and Lucas Ewen
Schools white paper

White paper: a roadmap with opportunity and risk for all

Having an end point to our fractured system is welcome, writes Caroline Barlow, but charting a course to that…

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Caroline Barlow
Schools white paper

White paper: our ambitions depend on the profession’s insights

Strong trusts are at the heart of our ambitions, writes Baroness Barran, and the review stage will ensure everyone…

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Baroness Diana Barran

Must Read

Opinion: Solutions

Five do-now strategies to ease the Year 7 dip

Here’s what we’ve learned from our programme to tackle disengagement in an area where the problem is pervasive

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Rebecca Maw
Opinion: Inclusion

What the inclusion push can learn from Haringey

AP is a lifeline, not a footnote. Haringey’s model shows what’s possible when we prioritise its pupils and their…

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Cllr Zena Brabazon
Opinion: CPD

NPQs must evolve to avoid a policy ‘boom and bust’

In many ways, this is the golden age of professional development, but there’s a gap in our provision which…

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Poppy Nobes

ITT

ITT

Degree apprenticeships are key to increasing and diversifying recruitment

Work to deliver the new qualification should continue at pace to meet recruitment challenges by making teaching more accessible,…

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Melanie Renowden
ITT

ITT: Which is the odd one out?

The deeply flawed ITT reforms are a threat to sustainable teacher supply for purely ideological purposes, writes David Spendlove

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David Spendlove
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EXAMS

Exams

University clearing: How teachers can support students 

All the important details school staff need to help youngsters through clearing this year

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Sam Sykes
Exams

How sitting an exam re-affirmed my respect for our students

I still believe exams to be the best way of testing academic knowledge and understanding but they’re no bagatelle,…

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James Handscombe
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