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Hannah Wilson’s top blogs of the week 8 Oct 2018

As this is my inaugural review of the week’s blogs I am going to focus on new voices. We held our 4th #WomenEd Unconference this weekend and challenged our community to be #10%braver. We already have several who have risen to the challenge, and I would like to do shout outs for their first blogs! […]

Reviews

Books for teachers and school leaders – summer 2018

Summer 2018 may have seen the driest skies since 1976, but in the world of edu publishing we’ve had such a deluge of books that we haven’t been able to keep up. Here’s a summer reading selection of books that Schools Week hasn’t reviewed, but are definitely worth checking out. For more recommendations, check out […]

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How to close the vocabulary gap in the classroom

Building children’s vocabularies opens doors to harder, more rewarding curriculums and lifelong learning, writes Alex Quigley, but it needs careful focus We know that talk is a well-established solution for developing children’s vocabulary. The daily lives of the “word rich” are characterised by lots of talk around the dinner table, alongside debate and discussion in […]

Opinion

Without a foundation in fact, oracy isn’t sufficient

Of course pupils need to learn to express themselves, says John Blake, but the fact is that without a firm basis in knowledge, their rhetoric will fall flat There are not many people who think literacy and numeracy are inessential objectives of our children’s education, even if there is far less agreement about how best […]

Opinion

You don’t need facts to win a debate, you need confidence

Knowledge isn’t enough to navigate the world: children need to be taught the power of their own voice, argues Anthony David It’s not often that Parliament is silenced by a 15-year-old who is struggling not to cry as they try to convey the importance of being able to speak out, but that is what happened […]

Opinion

Use CPD funding to boost pupil oracy, MPs told

The government should refocus its £75 million teaching and leadership innovation fund to help boost pupils’ speaking and listening skills, MPs were told today. Anita Kerwin-Nye, a leading special education needs professional and founder of the Communication Trust, told an event at Parliament attended by the children’s minister Nadhim Zahawi that oracy should become a “key goal” […]

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Jill Berry’s top blogs of the week 29 January 2018

Blog reviewer Jill Berry shares her top edu-blogs of the week   Oracy in the curriculum and how technology can help @ICTEvangelist In this comprehensive post, Mark Anderson explores how we can support the development of oracy using technology. Mark is good at pointing those less confident with technology than he is (which I suspect […]

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Strict traditional teaching methods are ‘pushing oracy out’, says MP

Traditionalist “chalk and talk” pedagogy is pushing oracy skills out of the curriculum to the detriment of poorer pupils, according to an MP who was once a primary teacher. Emma Hardy (pictured), Labour MP for Hull West and Hessle, said that schools favouring Victorian-style teaching methods in which pupils are “seen and not heard” is […]

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Poor verbal skills weaken 30,000 pupils’ GCSEs

Tens of thousands of pupils with strong spatial skills are failing to get top grades because their talents are masked by poor verbal skills, according to a new study of more than 20,000 children. Research published today by schools assessment provider GL Assessment suggests that about 30,000 GCSE pupils with “hidden talents” each year underperform […]

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