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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 the best education we can provide so that they can go on to become functioning, happy and valuable...
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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...
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‘Teaching is far and away the most important of all professions. Teachers make more difference to more people’s lives, in a way that more people feel...
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“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” - Benjamin Franklin.
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“We need to make sure that research findings get into the hands of teachers in ways that are most likely to have an impact. We know how challenging...
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The Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) has published a report today calling for reforms to the system for judging England’s primary...
