There have been minor updates to Keeping Children Safe in Education statutory safeguarding guidance for schools ...

Practical ideas for how teachers can build their staying power and what schools can do to help boost staff retention ...

Advice for new teachers on how to prepare for and deliver lessons in schools with challenging groups of students ...

Signs of systemic strain are already visible. Independent schools are moving away from high-stakes public exams (see Bedales ...

Teaching debating and rhetoric is a crucial part of oracy education, especially for disadvantaged learners in schools ...

As such, it advises secondary schools to focus, in particular, on arriving year 7 pupils who had a year 6 absence rate of “at least 13%”. This is because the analysis finds that the chances of being ...

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, Kristian Still turns to the importance of feedback, ...

Nurturing a sense of belonging at school can have a considerable impact on social and academic outcomes. Martha Evans explores nine factors that influence student belonging ...

Recent years have seen a focus on inclusion. The pastoral systems and structures in schools support inclusion and the socialisation and personal development of learners. Effective pastoral care ...

Sixteen technology developers have been awarded £1m in government funding to build AI tools to help teachers reduce their feedback and marking workload – with the first prototypes expected by April.

In this series, I am attempting to elaborate and share what the recipe of test-enhanced learning (more commonly known as retrieval practice), spaced learning, interleaving, feedback, metacognition, ...