Much is written about the vital role of semantic memory in teaching and learning, but episodic memory is still important and should not be dismissed out of hand. Andrew Jones outlines why Semantic ...

Average working hours have continued to fall this year, but despite this 1 in 5 teachers still work more than 60 hours a week and only 1 in 4 believe their workload to be acceptable. Minor ...

The latest workforce figures from the Department for Education (DfE, 2024a) show that the retention crisis is not abating. The most recent figures covering 2022/23 show that 39,971 teachers left state ...

Twelve barriers that prevent young people from disclosing sexual abuse and four factors that help them have been identified by researchers. Image: Adobe Stock An NSPCC-commissioned study (Allnock & ...

Continuing his series on the potential of retrieval practice, spaced learning, successive relearning, and metacognitive approaches in the classroom, this time Kristian Still focuses on the ‘spaced’ ...

New research evidence has bolstered the case for the use of setting in schools after revealing that high prior attainers make more progress in the maths classroom when grouped by ability. The Student ...

Myths about poverty and hardship exist in our schools and could be holding back our work to support disadvantaged students. Sean Harris considers the most common of these myths and what we can do to ...

Does a teacher’s use of sarcasm have a place in the classroom? Andrew Jones considers his own use of sarcasm and looks at what the research says about the pros and cons of using sarcasm with students ...

The Equality Act details nine protected characteristics with clear implications for schools found guilty of discrimination in any of these areas. Matt Bromley says that we need to add a 10th to this ...

In this five-part series, Matt Bromley looks at how we can create a questioning classroom. In part four, he explores the purposes of our questions, timing our questions effectively, how we can ‘pass a ...

In this episode, three experienced teachers offer a range of tips, ideas and advice for effective marking, feedback and assessment practices in the classroom. Themes include workload reduction, ...

The government has published its reforms to the SEN system. Margaret Mulholland explains why the next six months are crucial, outlines what schools can do now to prepare, and advises on how to create ...