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More than 90% of the world’s schools have been affected by the pandemic this year. That’s hundreds of millions of students faced with school closures. It has been a mammoth effort to ensure that these students’ learning didn’t just grind to halt....
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The short answer: it all depends on how you use the data. Teachers are not fortune tellers or magicians despite the wonders they can often work....
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Assessment in education has always been an important issue, and each school has its own approach. Schools can find it challenging to embed a...
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It was inevitable: the school closures were going to present more than a few challenges for children, parents and teachers. The challenges, however,...
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Fundamentally, teachers want to do the best by their students. The ideal end-goal is to be able to send our students out into the world armed with...
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Have you written your Christmas list yet? What if the educational community had a stocking? What presents would we want to wake up to?
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Your first year of teaching presents you with a wealth of challenges. How do you manage behaviour? How do you cope with the workload? How can you do...
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At the 10th Annual Festival of Education, held at the beautiful Wellington College, we (as the Centre for Evaluation & Monitoring, CEM, now Cambridge...
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How many of us, I wonder, in our first year of teaching came across that small child who was always reading, always carrying big thick books and...
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Under the 2018 Ofsted framework, inspectors were advised to “ignore all tracking data” and from September 2019 Ofsted’s goal was to view performance...
