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Tuesday

14th Jan 2025

How to help learners connect with complex histories
It is important to empower pupils to explore history through personal narratives, while also enhancing their critical thinking, empathy and communication skills, says Nuzhat Uthmani
Eighties tapes

Thursday

9th Jan 2025

‘Teaching is not a craft - but neither is it a science’
It involves incredible feats of creativity and technical know-how, but can educating really be described as an art or a craft? Bernard Andrews explores
Artist painting picture of classroom

Wednesday

8th Jan 2025

Dyslexia: the myths, the facts and how teachers can help
Some of the world’s leading reading and dyslexia experts have now agreed a definition of what dyslexia is, steps to diagnosis and schools’ role in the process
Typewriter keys

Monday

6th Jan 2025

4 ways to make your students care about what you’re saying
No amount of perfectionist planning can overcome apathy, writes Mark Enser, but simple approaches can spark your students’ curiosity
Four focussed

Friday

3rd Jan 2025

Speech and language is in crisis - what can schools do next?
Speech and language challenges in schools are at a critical point, but causation and solutions are complex, finds Zofia Niemtus. So, what should schools be doing?
Speech and language is in crisis - what can schools do next?

Thursday

2nd Jan 2025

What works to get children reading for pleasure
Fewer children in England report that they enjoy reading, but what can be done to reverse the trend? Zofia Niemtus speaks to researcher Teresa Cremin to find out
How to get more children reading for pleasure

Wednesday

1st Jan 2025

What is flipped learning?
Tes explores flipped-learning teaching and how teachers can encourage pupils to take responsibility for their own learning
What is flipped learning?

Tuesday

31st Dec 2024

Why every school should teach ‘emotional vocabulary’
Teachers must give children the language to talk about their emotions as a first step in managing feelings in a helpful way, says educational psychologist Cathleen Halligan
Why every school should teach ‘emotional vocabulary’

Monday

30th Dec 2024

How Lev Vygotsky helps teachers to plan lessons today
Tes explores the work of 20th-century developmental psychologist Lev Vygotsky, who emphasised the importance of social interaction in a child’s development
The Russian developmental psychologist Lev Vygotsky

Sunday

29th Dec 2024

Are you using education research ethically?
Evidence-informed practice is a priority in schools, but applying researchers’ findings properly requires careful thought, says Megan Dixon
Aristotle statue

Saturday

28th Dec 2024

What is Socratic questioning?
Tes explores the basics of Socratic questioning and how it can be used by teachers in classrooms today
What is Socratic questioning?
Could a four-day week work in schools?
As more schools in the US move to four-day weeks in a bid to save money and boost recruitment and retention, Irena Barker looks at how the model is working – and whether it could make sense in the UK
Can a four-day week work in schools?