Grit and resilience

On June 18, 2017 By Every day is a school dayIn AfL, Closing the GapLeave a comment

Lots of links and tips here courtesy of edutopia

https://www.edutopia.org/article/grit-resources

Interleaving

On June 17, 2017 By Every day is a school dayIn AfL, Closing the Gap, Differentiation, ResearchLeave a comment

Interleaving is something many practitioners are looking to help students retain more knowledge to help them with the new GCSEs. Here is a blog looking at it.

Spacing, Interleaving, the Testing Effect and Distributed Practice (the Diet Coke version)

Direct instruction

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Here is a blog about direct instruction. This is a technique favoured in some parts of the USA and Australia and sounds straight forward but is anything but as it needs very high levels of consistency. The use of non-examples here is intriguing though.

Six tips to improve your explicit teaching

Maximising TAs website

On June 14, 2017 By Every day is a school dayIn Closing the Gap, Differentiation, SENDLeave a comment

This is a gold mine of links, courses,resources and guidance linked to the effective use of TAs.

http://maximisingtas.co.uk/

Well worth a look.

What Is Not Working in Education (and What We Can Do About It)

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A great article here about where education goes from here. The image is relevant!!!!

What Is Not Working in Education (and What We Can Do About It)

Effectiveness of homework

On June 10, 2017 By Every day is a school dayIn Business/ICT, Closing the Gap, English, Humanities, Marking and Feedback, Maths, MFL, PE, Performing Arts, Research, ScienceLeave a comment

Here is a summary of the evidence from the EEF on the effectiveness of homework. It also contains some suggestions on how to improve it.

https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/resources/teaching-learning-toolkit/homework-secondary

Pupil premium toolkit from Marc Rowland

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Marc works for the NET and knows a thing or two about pupil premium

Resources

Closing the gap in achievement from the NET

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Good article here from Marc Rowland about closing the achievement gap and ideas for achieving this.

https://nationaleducationtrustblog.wordpress.com/20 view-from-the-foothills-by-marc-rowland/

Differentiation ideas

On May 29, 2017 By Every day is a school dayIn AfL, Closing the Gap, DifferentiationLeave a comment

From Cult of Pedagogy “I have combed through tons of online resources on how to differentiate instruction, and have put together this collection of the clearest, most high-quality resources for learning how to differentiate in your classroom”.