If you were to look at the UK news these days there are regular articles about the state of the UK’s schools whether it’s a recruitment crisis, behavioural issues, problems over crumbling buildings or recruiting and retaining teachers. Crumbling schools plagued by leaks and cold, BBC finds – BBC News Read more…
Scroll back three years to the first time schools closed because of the pandemic and, try as hard as we could, it was very difficult to achieve the same standard of education online compared to that in the classroom. Scroll back further to the infancy of online education and you’d Read more…
In this post I want to consider how we would identify what a great teacher is. I guess the easy answer is the one that gets the grades and in UK schools, it’s all about getting the grades but there’s a lot more to being a great teacher. If we Read more…
The UK Labour Party has identified oracy as a weakness that is impacting young peoples’ development and their employment prospects and intends to address the issue through an oracy curriculum paid for by collecting VAT on private school fees. Any teacher will tell you that there are a few very Read more…
Mention classroom management these days and quite often the link will be made to the phrase ‘managing behaviour in the classroom’. Of course, the term is wider ranging than this, but the issue of behavior (positive and negative) is a key element of the topic and deserves to be considered Read more…
How many times do we hear that the summer holidays are too long? It’s interesting to begin by considering the factors which determine whether the holidays are too long. For those parents who have to work and so therefore fund childcare over the holidays, it’s a long time. For those Read more…
I remember back to my teacher training days and how the pedagogical aspect of it was founded on Piaget’s Four Stages of Cognitive Development. It was only through undertaking the requisite reading for an assignment that I came across Lev Vygotsky’s approach to cognitive development and, whilst it is sometimes Read more…
How VR lessons increased chemistry test scores by 68 % in a leading Estonian grammar school Virtual reality, or VR, is taking off in education with an increasing number of schools adopting the technology. Katrin Soika, a Chemistry teacher at Gustav Adolf Grammar School in Tallinn, Estonia tested VR experiences Read more…
One argument against teaching, and learning, online is that practical subjects can’t be taught practically. Generally, that’s true but there are ways in which the teaching of practical subjects become more practical, teaching them online. Science is a great example. So many science teachers shy away from practical experiments, instead, Read more…
It’s that time of the year when probably the majority of students will recognise it’s time to start revising for the external exams that will begin in just over three weeks’ time. Many students will have already begun, taking their teachers’ advice that going over topics regularly through the year Read more…
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