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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. Guiding students through their exams is not just about drilling through course content, but also...
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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...
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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...
