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ABC’s of CEM
We are starting the year off by going back to basics and looking at what our assessments are all about. When we were pulling this together we...
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5 Steps to make assessment work for you
"To be able to evaluate impact, we need to know where we are starting from. For this we need baseline data. From this starting point, we can evaluate...
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Is it time to ditch ‘Differentiation’?
By Greg Ashman I suspect I would struggle to find a teacher who has never heard of ‘differentiation’. Exhortations to differentiate are ubiquitous in...
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6 elements of great teaching
"You’re a teacher. You know how to help people learn hard stuff. Do that." Professor Rob Coe Teaching can be, without a doubt, a complicated...
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6 Tactics to help a child work on set tasks
Children who are inattentive, hyperactive or impulsive are likely to benefit from an environment which is well structured and predictable. It is good...
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Making a positive primary to secondary transition in Music
by Dimitra Kokotsaki Moving from Key Stage 2 to Key Stage 3 can be a big upheaval for many pupils. Schools work hard to ease the transition with a...