Opinion: Solutions

Two strategies for cross-curricular LGBT+ inclusion

Marking the start of LGBT history month, Mel Lane sets out some easy wins to build a year-round inclusive…

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Mel Lane
The Knowledge

Can combining language and movement improve both?

Anna Cunningham sets out the results of a new study for into combining exercise and literacy with young pupils…

JL Dutaut
Dr Anna Cunningham
Opinion: Accountability

The Plymouth Playbook: Piloting people through improvement

Aaron Meredith tries to bottle the strategy that has driven his southwest schools to Ofsted success with people, not…

JL Dutaut
Aaron Meredith
Opinion: Curriculum

Let’s finally embrace the marriage of knowledge and skills

We must get past an ill-informed and fruitless opposition between knowledge and skills in order to make better policy

JL Dutaut
Tim Oates
Opinion: Workforce

The ITTECF is another step forward for inclusive teaching

Changes to the early-career framework are putting pupils with additional needs at the heart of teacher training, say contributors…

JL Dutaut
Margaret Mulholland and Simon Knight
Opinion: SEND

Solutions: Breaking down barriers for students with SEND

Putting the needs of pupils with SEND at the heart of every decision is key to improving attendance, mental…

JL Dutaut
Ben Mallinson
Opinion: Workforce
DfE is 'assessing' the possible impact of UCU marking boycotts on ITT recruits

Five changes to the ECF to better back trainee teachers

Damian Hinds explains how reforms announced today will tackle teething problems with the early career framework identified by schools…

JL Dutaut
Damian Hinds MP
Opinion: Policy
Three more councils have been slammed by inspectors over systemic SEND failings

Three proposals to fix our fractured school system

Schools structures may not seem like a priority but political failure to grasp the nettle is costly and diverts…

JL Dutaut
Tom Richmond
The Knowledge

Can oracy be reliably assessed?

A new report explores the use of new models of assessment to make oracy a reliably measurable part of…

JL Dutaut
Amanda Moorghen

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Given the choice, do we want SEND segregation in education?

If we accept specialist facilities should exist primarily to support inclusion, rather than as parallel systems, we must consider…

Freddie Whittaker
Dr Vasilis Strogilos
Opinion

What we learned from four Ofsted report card inspections

If the renewed framework can play a role in supporting our own high expectations, then we welcome it with…

Freddie Whittaker
Andrew Rigby
Opinion

We need your input to ensure NPQs provide the skills needed in schools 

The demands on leaders are shifting, and the frameworks that support them have to move too. Evidence and practice…

Freddie Whittaker
Dr Herminder Channa

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

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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