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
Perhaps the question should be ‘Is there anything wrong with education today?’ A good place to start is to consider the many different models of education around the world, whether it’s the Scandinavian approach which gets the best results, the Singapore model which is renowned for its maths outcomes or Read more
Take a look at an online school review site and one thing you’ll notice immediately is the variance in the cost of a school place. Whilst the temptation is to choose an online school on the basis of cost, the difference in what you will get for your money is Read more
Throughout Elea High Online School’s website and social media posting you’ll see regular reference to ‘Flipped Learning’ and may well wonder what it is and why it’s so important. The traditional model for class teaching is for a teacher to deliver the lesson content then ask the students to do Read more