Covid

Navigating Covid-19: five tips to get us to Christmas

This has been a punishing year, and we need to keep strong as winter takes hold. Here are some…

JL Dutaut
SARAH MULLIN
Opinion

Technology has reduced workload and stress, right?

Laura McInerney looks at the latest Teacher Tapp data to contrast the perceptions of policy makers with the reality…

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LAURA MCINERNEY
Opinion

What schools need to know about safeguarding while teaching remotely

Policies, infrastructure, communication and trouble-shooting: these are the four crucial things to consider as online teaching becomes increasingly common,…

JL Dutaut
CHARLOTTE AYNSLEY
Opinion
attendance

School closures or not, a second wave of lost learning is already upon us

The latest data shows the most disadvantaged pupils were more likely to have missed the most school this term,…

JL Dutaut
LUKE SIBIETA
Opinion

Schools must stay open and here’s how to achieve it

The former prime minister reveals a long-term strategy that he says will build confidence to keep schools open Covid-19…

JL Dutaut
TONY BLAIR
Opinion
autumn exams

Why the rank order contingency plan is flawed

If the best contingency we have is to slot students who missed exams into an unreliable grade ranking then…

JL Dutaut
DENNIS SHERWOOD
Covid
school funding

Some temporary Covid measures should be made permanent

Some of the temporary changes made to respond to the pandemic should now be made permanent, argues Benoit Guerin…

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BENOIT GUERIN
Opinion

How to make the best of one-to-one tuition

As the national tutoring programme rolls out, David Hatchett sets out the lessons AET have learned about effective implementation…

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DAVID HATCHETT
Opinion

Après SKE. What next for Subject Knowledge Enhancement courses?

With course allocations on hold, Sam Sims looks at the value of subject knowledge enhacement courses and how they…

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DR SAM SIMS

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…

JL Dutaut
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

John Dickens
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,…

JL Dutaut
James Handscombe
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