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 ...

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’ ...

The PISA research says that ‘adaptive instruction’ is one of the approaches most positively correlated with student performance. Matt Bromley looks at what adaptive teaching entails and how to deliver ...

Within minutes of joining social media, four 13-year-old children were served up content featuring guns, self-harm, sexualised materials and misogyny... Free choice? The researchers in the experiment ...

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 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, ...

Metacognitive approaches have great potential to boost student progress. In this five-article series, Helen Webb explains the teaching and learning model at Orchard Mead Academy and how it translates ...

The continuing rise of misinformation has sparked renewed calls for critical thinking to be at the heart of the national curriculum. Andrew Jones considers what exactly critical thinking is and how ...

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 one teaching intervention that could most benefit a range of students, including EAL and SEN, is – according to Daniel Sobel – the use of pre-learning and over-learning. He discusses how these ...

For years we have spoken about differentiation in the classroom. But now everyone is talking about adaptive teaching. Confused? Sara Alston reminds us that it ain’t what you call it, but the way that ...

The new Ofsted regime is up and running and the first reports are out. Paul K Ainsworth analyses the first 33 secondary reports to find out what we can learn and why Curriculum and Teaching is the ...