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Running a successful residential school trip
What if you could achieve breakthroughs in learner engagement, progress and attainment, and teacher-student relationships, while also…
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Security and technology – what matters most for schools?
Simon Harbridge (Stone Group): Jay, you and I recently attended the same debate on digital safeguarding, and we found a lot of common…
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Lesson plan: KS3 science – potions and precipitates for chemistry
Get back to the basics of chemistry in this engaging KS3 chemistry lesson to develop students’ skills in qualitative analysis. Use…
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Teaching the new computing curriculum
The introduction of a new curriculum means, amongst other things, that every child will now enjoy the benefits of learning about computing…
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Book Reviews
The Talkabout series is an extremely successful, hierarchical approach to teaching social skills; and Talkabout for Teenagers is ideal for…
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Six things to ask before before you buy
Schools must procure technology in a strategic way to ensure that they achieve the full benefits of the tools they deploy. By considering…
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The future of edutech – a view from the States
One-to-one technology was introduced in the Illinois, USA, school district in which I taught, at the beginning of the 2014-15 school year.…
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Safeguarding students online slips through the cracks
Ofsted’s guidance says that students should be educated in identifying online risks, but what this actually means in practice however is…
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Everyday IT
Monday You can use the Explain Everything app to deliver high quality feedback on digital student work. This can take literally minutes and…
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Is technology really worth the investment?
The research questions Setting aside the Hawthorne effect and findings summarised by Hattie in Visible Learning - which essentially…
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What every teacher needs to know about… the effect size
There’s a slew of research out there telling teachers what to teach and how to teach it. But when you’ve got a Year 8 lesson to plan and…
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Lesson plan: KS4 English – SPAG for teenagers
Why teach This? You mean, apart from not having much choice because of changes to GCSE English Literature with the introduction of marks for…
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Effective technology use in every classrooom
Most teachers are good learners; especially when they are motivated and see the benefits of adapting and changing their practice for the…