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Using VLEs effectively
Virtual learning environments (VLEs), management learning environments (MLEs), learning platforms and more generically, learning management…
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Classroom life – Trent Academies Group
I had been a head teacher in Nottinghamshire for ten years before I took a post at Rushcliffe School in 2010. Rushcliffe is a mile away from…
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Product review: Progress Test Series
Used properly, data makes a huge difference in meeting the needs of every student and can be a powerful ally in stimulating positive change…
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Apps for Good
I am Rebecca Jilks, 16, and together with my brother Ben, 14, I go to the Boswells School in Essex. Last year our fantastic computer teacher…
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Make touchscreen technology work for you
Ed tech is a funny phrase, encompassing a lot of things. It refers of course to educational technology – but is it a group of apps? A…
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BOOK REVIEWS
TICKED OFF (Harry Fletcher-Wood, Crown House, £9.99) Checklists imposed on teachers in order to meet bureaucratic and/or political…
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Help your students learn to love Shakespeare
Arecent survey by the British Library, based on interviews with 511 secondary school and college teachers of English Language and English…
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Lesson Plan: KS4 Maths – Tricks with Algebra
To many KS4 students, algebra is morass of letters, numbers and symbols which have to be manipulated according to arbitrary and pointless…
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Future trends in secondary education
Governmental policy, cultural shifts and new technologies can all have a substantial impact on the needs and expectations of both teachers…
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Banish ‘one-click’ research, permanently
1 Precision matters Thinking carefully about your terms is key to successful online research. The more keywords entered, the greater the…
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Lesson plan: KS4 English – Animal Farm
My Y10s already know Animal Farm well, having read through it in class, and the challenge now is to get them to understand it – really…
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Classroom Life: Honywood Community Science School
A2015 report from the think tank Demos concluded that some pupils feel school is just preparing them for exam success, reporting that only…
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John Hattie, Deb Masters and Katie Birch on the Visible Learning journey
TS: What inspired you to get into the field of education? John Hattie: The only way to leave my country town was to enrol to be a teacher…